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A Decade of Ever-Increasing Provisioned IOPS for Amazon EBS

https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ Progress is often best appreciated in retrospect. Today, ten years after we first launched the Provisioned IOPS feature for https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/, I strongly believe that to be the case. All About the IOPS Let’s start with a quick review of IOPS, which is short for Input/Output Operations per Second. This is a number which is commonly used to characterize the performance of a storage device, and higher numbers mean better performance. In many cases, applications that generate high IOPS values will use threads, asynchronous I/O operations, and/or other forms of parallelism.