AOSPERF03-BP03 Use storage types that provide higher IOPs and throughput baseline
Improve storage performance with higher baseline IOPs and throughput using more scalable and efficient volume types.
Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established: Low
Desired outcome: Improved storage performance, with increased input and output operations Per second (IOPs) and higher throughput.
Benefits of establishing this best practice:
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Improved baseline performance: Using gp3 EBS volumes provide higher baseline performance compared to gp2 volumes.
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Scalable high performance: With gp3 volumes, you can provision higher performance independently of the volume size, allowing for more scalable and efficient performance in your OpenSearch Service domains.
Implementation guidance
gp3 is the successor to the general-purpose SSD gp2 volume, offering higher baseline performance and the capability to provision higher performance independent of volume size.
Implementation steps
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Log in to the AWS Management Console.
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Navigate to the Amazon OpenSearch Service console.
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For an existing domain, select the domain name and choose Actions, then Edit cluster configuration.
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Navigate to Number of data nodes box, and locate EBS volume type.
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Change the volume type from General Purpose (SSD) – gp2 to General Purpose (SSD) – gp3.
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