AWS Storage Gateway - Performance; Performance Guidance for File Gateways

AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Performance Guidance for File Gateways
Performance
In this section, you can find information about AWS Storage Gateway performance.
Topics
• Performance Guidance for File Gateways (p. 285)
• Performance Guidance for Tape Gateways (p. 286)
• Optimizing Gateway Performance (p. 287)
Performance Guidance for File Gateways
In this section, you can find configuration guidance for provisioning hardware for your file gateway VM.
The Amazon EC2 instance sizes and types that are listed in the table are examples, and are provided for
reference.
Cache Disk Configuration
For best performance, the cache disk size must be tuned to the size of the active working set. Using
multiple local disks for the cache increases write performance by parallelizing access to data and leads to
higher IOPS.
Following are recommended configurations for your file gateway.
Recommended Configuration Write Throughput (File
Sizes > 6 MB)
Root disk: 80 GB io1, 4,000 IOPS
Cache disk: 512 GiB EBS cache, io1, 1,500
provisioned IOPS
Minimum network performance: 1 Gbps
Amazon EC2 instance: c5.4xlarge
125 MiB/s (0.9 Gbps)
Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance
Minimum network performance: 5 Gbps
300 MiB/s (2.3 Gbps)
Root disk: 80 GB io1, 4,000 IOPS
Cache disk: Two 1.9 TiB NVME caches
(ephemeral)
Minimum network performance: 5 Gbps
Amazon EC2 instance: i3.4xlarge (the section
called “Using Ephemeral Storage With EC2
Gateways” (p. 223))
500 MiB/s (3.9 Gbps)
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