Today,
Amazon Web Services, Inc., (AWS)
announced general availability of io2, the next generation Provisioned
IOPS SSD volumes for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). The new
io2 volume is designed for 100x higher volume durability (99.999%) when
compared to the 99.9% durability offered by io1 Amazon EBS volumes.
Higher volume durability reduces the likelihood of storage failures and
makes the primary copy of customers' data more resilient, resulting in
better application availability. With io2, customers can drive 10x
higher input/output operations per second (IOPS) from their provisioned
storage at the same price as io1, so performance improves significantly
without increasing storage cost. io2 is ideal for performance-intensive,
business critical applications that need higher availability like ERP,
CRM, and online transaction systems and the databases like SAP HANA,
Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, Apache Cassandra, MySQL, and
PostreSQL that back them. To get started with io2 volumes visit: https://aws.amazon.com/ebs.
Amazon
EBS already offers four different volume types at various price points
and performance benchmarks to support virtually any application that
customers want to run in the cloud, including relational and
non-relational databases, enterprise applications, and big data
analytics. Customers specifically choose io1 volumes (the previous
highest performance EBS volumes) to run their critical,
performance-intensive applications, like SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL Server,
Splunk, Apache Cassandra, IBM DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle
databases. For these applications, customers want greater volume
durability to improve the resiliency of their primary data and get
better application availability. Additionally, to meet their IOPS
requirements for these applications, customers often provision more
storage than needed, resulting in higher spend than they would otherwise
incur. For these applications, customers only want to provision and pay
for the storage that they actually need.
Next-generation
io2 volumes are designed to deliver 100x higher volume durability (from
99.9% to 99.999%), enhancing availability of business-critical
applications. io2 volumes are priced the same as io1 volumes, keeping
the same predictable cost for EBS customers, but now support 10x higher
IOPS-to-storage ratio and up to 500 IOPS for every provisioned GB, so
that customers can get more performance without increasing their storage
spend. Similar to io1, io2 is designed to provide maximum performance
of 64,000 IOPS, 1000 MB/s throughput, and single-digit millisecond
latencies. Customers can create new io2 volumes or easily upgrade their
existing volumes to io2 volumes using Elastic Volumes, which customers
use modify the volume type without any downtime for applications running
on their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.
"Customers
rely on highly durable AWS block storage to keep their
business-critical applications running at any scale," said Mai-Lan
Tomsen Bukovec, Vice President, Block and Object Storage, AWS. "Today,
we are excited to announce new high durability io2 volumes, that provide
existing customers 100x higher volume durability than io1 at no
additional cost. For new customers where five nines of storage
durability is critical to migrate on-premises business critical
applications to AWS, io2 brings together performance, durability, and
agility all in a single EBS volume."
Customers
can create new io2 volumes with just a few clicks using the AWS
Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface, or AWS SDKs. io2 volumes
are available today in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West
(N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia
Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia
Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe
(Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), and
Middle East (Bahrain), with more regions coming soon.
Bristol
Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical company whose mission is to
discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines that help patients
prevail over serious diseases. "We love the performance benefits of io1
and use it for simulations that require high storage performance," said
Mohammad Shaikh, Director, Scientific Computing Services, Cloud
Computing & DevOps, at Bristol Myers Squibb. "However, we need to
provision more storage to meet the IOPS requirements, adding to our
cost. But with the 10x increase in IOPS per GB ratio, we can easily
enable peak performance at a much lower cost than we ever could with
traditional SAN hardware vendors."
Salesforce
enables companies of every size and industry to take advantage of
powerful technologies-cloud, mobile, social, internet of things,
artificial intelligence, voice, and blockchain-to create a 360° view of
their customers. "Our commitment to our core value of customer success
includes ensuring Salesforce applications are available whenever our
customers need them," said Paul Constantinides, Executive Vice President
of Engineering, at Salesforce. "Delivering an always-on experience
requires highly reliable storage. With AWS and EBS new io2 volumes
designed for five nines durability, we will continue to meet and exceed
our customers' expectations."
Cloudreach,
a Blackstone portfolio company, specializes in implementing and
managing public cloud solutions for enterprise customers across Europe
and North America. "Cloudreach has been using AWS for over a decade, and
we love the incredible innovation shown by Amazon EBS in terms of
feature releases and the ability to act on customer requests. The impact
of downtime for our customers is high, and io1 volumes have been great
in minimizing these risks. We rely on AWS' Multi-AZ architecture to keep
our platforms running 24x7, but with increased volume durability we can
further improve our application uptime," said Chris Bunch, GM for the
AWS Practice at Cloudreach. "io2 is awesome for us, because the 100x
higher volume durability further reduces the risk of downtime, and the
new IOPS to GB ratio means we're actually paying less for performance
per GB."
Rapid7
is a leading provider of cloud security analytics and automation.
"Historically, we've used EBS gp2 volumes to deliver block storage at
low cost for our Product Analytics platform, which analyzes customer
behavior to help us make more intelligent product decisions and innovate
faster. As our customer base has grown, we have started relying more
and more on the availability of this platform to guide our strategic
decisions. So, higher volume durability is critical for minimizing any
downtime," said Ulrich Dangel, Principal Infrastructure Architect, at
Rapid7. "We love that in addition to gp2 volumes for our general purpose
storage for EC2 instance, we now have the option of using io2 volumes
for our highest performance applications, which have helped us increase
our data durability by 100x without redesigning the platform."