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Ed Chan

Author: Ed Chan

Ed Chan is a Principal Solutions Architect at AWS based in Seattle, Washington. With over two decades of information technology experience, he currently advises enterprise customers and solves business and technical challenges by providing architectural guidance and cloud-native best practices. Outside of work, he follows the NBA and is perennially excited and disappointed by his hometown team the New York Knicks.

Prevent IOPS over-provisioning by monitoring striped Amazon EBS volumes within EC2 instance limits

Enterprises are always looking for ways to optimize storage performance to support their performance-intensive applications and workloads. One technique is data striping, which involves segmenting data across multiple storage volumes to aggregate maximum logical capacity and increase performance. The technique is useful for workloads that require high levels of input/output operations per second (IOPS) and/or […]