PERF 5. How do you select the appropriate storage solution for your system?
AWS is designed to provide low-cost data storage with high durability and availability. AWS offers storage choices for backup, archiving, and disaster recovery, as well as block, file, and object storage.

 

Best practices:
 Policy/Reference Architecture Select instance type and size based on predicted resource need with internal governance standard.
 Cost/Budget Selecting instance type and size based on predicted resource need based on internal cost controls.
 Benchmarking Load test a known workload on AWS and use that to estimate the best selection – testing a known performance benchmark vs. a known workload.
 Guidance from AWS or from an APN Partner Select a solution based on best practice advice.
 Load Test Deploy the latest version of your system on AWS using different instance types and sizes; use monitoring to capture performance metrics; and then make selection based on a calculation of performance/cost.