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Ray Zaman

Author: Ray Zaman

A Principal Solutions Architect with AWS, Ray Zaman has over 30 years of experience helping customers in finance, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, media, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, public utility, retail, semiconductor, telecommunications, and waste management industries build technology solutions.

Figure 1 – Visualizing read I/O operations on d3.2xlarge instances across three Availability Zones.

Field Notes: Benchmarking Performance of the New M5zn, D3, and R5b Instance Types with Datadog

This post was co-written with Danton Rodriguez, Product Manager at Datadog.  At re:Invent 2020, AWS announced the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M5zn, D3, and R5b instance types. These instances are built on top of the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS-designed hardware and software innovations that enable the delivery of private networking, […]