Storage Performance & Configuration Best Practices
AWS provides various storage services optimized for different workloads. SecureCart must configure its storage to maximize performance, optimize costs, and ensure reliability for workloads like product catalog storage, transaction processing, and session management.
✔ Why does SecureCart need optimized storage performance?
Ensures fast response times for product searches and checkout transactions.
Reduces storage costs by using the appropriate performance settings.
Improves reliability and availability with best-practice configurations.
Enhances scalability for peak traffic events (e.g., holiday sales).
🔹 Step 1: Performance Optimization for AWS Storage Services
✔ Why? – SecureCart optimizes storage settings to achieve low latency and high throughput based on workload needs.
AWS Storage Service
Performance Optimization Strategy
SecureCart Use Case
Amazon S3
Enable S3 Transfer Acceleration for faster global uploads.
Vendors upload product images from different regions efficiently.
Amazon S3
Use S3 Intelligent-Tiering to optimize costs for frequently and infrequently accessed data.
Transaction logs and order history automatically move to lower-cost storage tiers.
Amazon EBS
Choose io2 Block Express for ultra-low latency transactional workloads.
Ensures checkout database transactions complete quickly.
Amazon EBS
Use Multi-Attach EBS for high availability on critical workloads.
Multiple EC2 instances process order payments simultaneously.
Amazon EFS
Set EFS Performance Mode to Max I/O for highly parallel workloads.
SecureCart’s AI/ML analytics service processes customer behavior trends.
Amazon FSx
Choose FSx for Lustre for high-throughput machine learning models.
Improves performance of personalized recommendations.
Amazon DynamoDB
Enable DynamoDB On-Demand Mode for unpredictable traffic.
Handles flash sales and spikes in customer activity.
✅ Best Practices: ✔ Use S3 Intelligent-Tiering to reduce storage costs automatically. ✔ Select the right EBS volume type based on workload needs (gp3 for balanced cost/performance, io2 for low latency). ✔ Optimize IOPS and throughput for high-performance databases.
🔹 Step 2: Configuring Amazon S3 for High Performance
✔ Why? – SecureCart uses Amazon S3 to store static content, logs, and backups, requiring optimized configurations for performance.
✔ Amazon S3 Performance Optimization Techniques:
Optimization Method
Purpose
SecureCart Implementation
Multi-Part Upload
Improves performance for large files.
Vendors upload large product images efficiently.
S3 Transfer Acceleration
Speeds up data uploads across regions.
Vendors in Europe upload inventory updates faster.
Parallel Requests
Increases read/write throughput for frequent access.
Checkout system reads pricing data in parallel for quick calculations.
✅ Best Practices: ✔ Enable S3 Transfer Acceleration for cross-region uploads. ✔ Use multi-part upload for files over 100MB to improve efficiency. ✔ Distribute read/write requests across S3 prefixes to avoid performance bottlenecks.
🔹 Step 3: Optimizing Amazon EBS Performance
✔ Why? – SecureCart relies on EBS for fast database performance and transactional workloads.
✔ Amazon EBS Performance Optimization Techniques:
EBS Volume Type
Best for
SecureCart Use Case
gp3 (General Purpose SSD)
Balanced performance and cost-effective storage.
Product database storage for standard workloads.
io2 (Provisioned IOPS SSD)
Low-latency, high-performance database workloads.
Ensures fast order processing in SecureCart’s checkout system.
st1 (Throughput Optimized HDD)
High-throughput big data workloads.
Processes analytics on large-scale shopping trends.
✔ How to Optimize EBS Performance:
Use EBS-Optimized EC2 Instances to ensure dedicated bandwidth.
Enable EBS Multi-Attach for highly available applications.
Use EBS Snapshots for backup and rapid disaster recovery.
✅ Best Practices: ✔ Use provisioned IOPS (io2) for high-performance applications. ✔ Monitor CloudWatch metrics for EBS throughput and latency. ✔ Use gp3 instead of gp2 for cost savings with better performance.
🔹 Step 4: Tuning Amazon RDS & DynamoDB for Scalability
✔ Why? – SecureCart requires highly available and performant databases to process transactions efficiently.
AWS Database Storage Optimization
Purpose
SecureCart Implementation
Amazon RDS Read Replicas
Offload read traffic from the primary database.
Improves performance for frequently accessed product catalog data.
Amazon RDS Multi-AZ
Provides automatic failover in case of an outage.
Ensures checkout system remains available even during failures.
DynamoDB Auto-Scaling
Dynamically adjusts capacity based on demand.
Handles sudden traffic spikes without manual intervention.
DynamoDB DAX
Adds in-memory caching for faster read performance.
Accelerates product recommendations based on user behavior.
✅ Best Practices: ✔ Enable automatic scaling for databases to match demand. ✔ Use RDS Performance Insights to identify query bottlenecks. ✔ Leverage DynamoDB DAX for microsecond response times.
🔹 Step 5: Monitoring & Performance Tuning for AWS Storage
✔ Why? – SecureCart monitors its storage performance to detect bottlenecks and optimize workloads.
AWS Monitoring Tool
Purpose
SecureCart Use Case
Amazon CloudWatch
Monitors storage utilization and performance.
Tracks EBS latency and identifies performance degradation.
AWS Trusted Advisor
Recommends optimizations for cost, security, and performance.
Detects over-provisioned storage to reduce costs.
AWS Cost Explorer
Analyzes storage spend and trends.
Identifies underutilized storage volumes for cost savings.
✅ Best Practices: ✔ Use CloudWatch Alarms to detect high-latency storage performance. ✔ Enable Trusted Advisor to identify unused or misconfigured storage. ✔ Regularly analyze storage costs using AWS Cost Explorer.
🚀 Summary
✔ Use Amazon S3 for scalable, cost-effective object storage with optimizations like Transfer Acceleration and Intelligent-Tiering. ✔ Choose the right EBS volume type (gp3, io2, st1) based on workload requirements. ✔ Enable Multi-AZ RDS, read replicas, and DynamoDB Auto-Scaling for high database performance. ✔ Monitor and fine-tune storage performance with CloudWatch, Trusted Advisor, and AWS Cost Explorer.
Scenario:
SecureCart needs to optimize storage configurations to meet high-performance and low-latency requirements.
Key Learning Objectives:
✅ Configure Amazon S3 storage classes for cost/performance balance ✅ Optimize Amazon EBS volumes using IOPS and throughput settings ✅ Improve Amazon EFS throughput and performance
Hands-on Labs:
1️⃣ Configure Amazon S3 Storage Classes for Cost Optimization 2️⃣ Benchmark Amazon EBS Performance Using Provisioned IOPS 3️⃣ Set Up an EFS File System with Performance Mode Adjustments
🔹 Outcome: SecureCart optimizes storage configurations for high performance and cost efficiency.
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