ADVPERF03-BP01 Choose appropriate block storage options to power your advertising workload - Video Streaming Advertising Lens
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ADVPERF03-BP01 Choose appropriate block storage options to power your advertising workload

Block storage is crucial for data storage in the cloud. Customers need to choose the appropriate block storage service based on different types of workloads, as well as their requirements for storage performance and stability.

Implementation guidance

Amazon EBS provides persistent block-level storage volumes for use with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. In the advertising industry, Amazon EBS can be used to store databases, such as MySQL or PostgreSQL, that power ad servers, bid management systems, and other critical components. Amazon EBS volumes can be easily scaled and optimized for different workload patterns, which provides high performance and reliability.

  • Volume types: Choose the appropriate EBS volume type based on your workload. For general-purpose workloads, use GP3 volumes. For high-performance needs, consider IO2 volumes. If you need high performance, you'll need to use EC2 Instance Store. It's ephemeral block storage with a much higher performance than EBS.

  • EBS-optimized instances: Use Amazon EBS-optimized Amazon EC2 instances to provide dedicated throughput between your instances and Amazon EBS volumes. For example, use Amazon EBS-optimized Amazon EC2 instances and provisioned IOPS volumes for real-time bidding or ad serving. workloads.

  • Encryption: Enable encryption by default for all Amazon EBS volumes to meet security and compliance requirements.

  • Snapshot management: Regularly create and manage Amazon EBS snapshots for backup and disaster recovery. Use AWS Data Lifecycle Manager to automate snapshot management.

  • Performance monitoring: Use Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor and optimize EBS health and performance.

  • Scaling: Leverage Amazon EBS Elastic Volumes to increase the size of Amazon EBS volumes dynamically without disrupting your applications.

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