Tag: Monitoring

Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instances with locally attached NVMe storage can provide the performance needed for workloads demanding ultra-low latency and high I/O throughput. High-performance workloads, from high-frequency trading applications and in-memory databases to real-time analytics engines and AI/ML inference, need comprehensive performance tracking. Operating system tools like iostat and sar provide valuable system-level insights, and Amazon CloudWatch offers important disk IOPs and throughput measurements, but high-performance workloads can benefit from even more detailed visibility into instance store performance.

This post is written by Sebastian Lee, Solution Architect, Startup Singapore. Amazon Lightsail is a great starting point for those looking to get started on AWS. Lightsail is ideal for startups, SMBs, and hobbyist developers because it simplifies the deployment of instances, databases, load-balancers, CDNs, and even containers. However, you cannot track metrics beyond  CPU […]

This post was written by Dean Suzuki, Solution Architect Manager. Customers who run Windows or Linux instances on AWS frequently ask, “How do I know if my disks are almost full?” or “How do I know if my application is using all the available memory and is paging to disk?” This blog helps answer these […]