AWS Storage Blog
Author: Allen Xie
Allen Xie is an AWS Storage Specialist Solution Architect based in China. He focuses on helping customers construct resilient, optimized, and cost-effective systems based on budgets and business requirements, especially in storage selection and design. In his free time, he likes to play badminton and go fishing.
Achieving sub-10ms latency and 94% cost savings with Diskless Kafka using AutoMQ and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
As more organizations adopt Diskless Kafka—a cloud-based messaging queue that builds entirely on object storage like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)—they gain significant cost and operational advantages. But for latency-sensitive workloads, this architecture faces a key question: how to keep millisecond-level write latency while preserving the cost benefits of S3? This is the core […]
PingCAP increased TiDB Cloud stability using Amazon EBS detailed performance statistics
PingCAP is a global company focused on developing distributed, high-performance, and auto scaling relational databases. Its flagship product, TiDB, is a popular open source databases, and TiDB Cloud, a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) based on TiDB, delivers horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability for high-performance applications. Many PingCAP customers run highly latency-sensitive workloads such […]
Global fashion e-commerce retailer shortens SQL query time by 30% using Amazon EBS io2 Block Express
A top global e-commerce retailer employs the concept of on-demand manufacturing to deliver a wide variety of affordable fashion apparel products to customers around the world. It serves end users globally with a mobile app and website for ordering, payment, and delivery. To improve the performance, resilience, flexibility, and scalability of its systems, the retailer […]