Amazon Web Services (AWS) has unveiled High I/O instances, a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance aimed for applications having low latency access to high-speed storage.
“With the launch of High I/O instances, customers can take advantage of SSD-based instances to run their most demanding applications on AWS, whether it’s running databases that support high-transaction enterprise applications or powering massively popular social, mobile or gaming apps for consumers,” said Peter De Santis, Vice President of Amazon EC2. “These new instances are a more efficient and cost effective way to run high I/O applications and another example of our roadmap being shaped by our customers—as this has been a top request from customers over the last few months.”
These new instances are backed by solid-state disks (SSDs) and are capable of delivering in excess of 120,000 read input and output operations (IOPS) and over 80,000 write IOPS, making them ideally suited for transaction processing, time series analysis, and mobile and streaming applications that require low latency access to storage systems that can deliver tens of thousands of IOPS. With this new instance type, customers can run demanding data-driven applications on Amazon EC2 without making expensive up-front capital investments.
