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Provision an EBS Volume with Provisioned IOPS on AWS

In this lab you'll practice reviewing IO performance on EBS volumes. When you're finished with this lab, you'll have deployed an EBS volume with a dedicated IOPS quota and have learned a tool to help you evaluate IO performance.

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Labs - Provision an EBS Volume with Provisioned IOPS on AWS

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Level
Beginner
Duration
30m
Released
Dec 01, 2021

Lab author

Lab Author: Daniel Wilcox
Daniel Wilcox
Daniel is an infrastructure software engineer specializing in building and automating scalable, secure SaaS platforms. He focuses on building reliable distributed systems using techniques such as infrastructure-as-code, immutable systems, and client-side load balancing. As the principal platform engineer at Ripple, Daniel helped transform an enterprise Java application into a SaaS product. He built features for dynamic workloads such as automated blue-green deployments, version-based routing for... more micro-services, and automated certificate issuance and rotation. At Google, Daniel was an SRE and systems engineer for Google Cloud and Platforms. Daniel is an advisor for start-ups and investors. After 12 years in Silicon Valley, Daniel is now enjoying sunny London with his wife. Top Tools & Languages: AWS/GCE, Hashicorp products (Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad, Packer), Envoy service mesh, Salt Stack, Django, and Gitlab. Python, Go, and C.
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Challenge

Get Baseline EBS Performance

Run a benchmark on the provided EC2 host to get the max IOPS and throughput for a general purpose SSD.

Challenge

Create a Provisioned IOPS SSD

Create a new EBS volume in AWS with provisioned IOPS, and attach it to the EC2 host.

Challenge

Set up the New EBS Volume

Configure the new IOPS provisioned EBS volume by creating a file system, and mounting it for local use.

Challenge

Get Provisioned IOPS EBS Performance

Run a benchmark on the provided EC2 host to get the max IOPS and throughput for provisioned IOPS SSD.

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