Optimizing storage performance with Amazon S3 (STG328)

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Optimizing Performance for Amazon S3

Why Storage Performance Matters

  • Performance unlocks data and provides faster insights, enabling better customer experiences and cost optimization.
  • As data grows faster than ever, high-performance storage is crucial to maximize compute utilization and drive down total cost of ownership.

Understanding S3 Performance

  • Each S3 request has an overhead (time to first byte) and a data transfer part.
  • Workloads can be latency-sensitive (single request performance) or throughput-sensitive (aggregate throughput).
  • Measuring performance is key - S3 provides metrics through CloudWatch, S3 Storage Lens, and Server Access Logs.

Performance Improvements in S3

  • S3 Express One Zone: Single-digit millisecond latency, 10x performance improvements, and 50% cost reduction compared to S3 Standard.
  • AWS Common Runtime (CRT): Free library that optimizes I/O-intensive workloads, providing up to 2x performance improvements.
  • S3 Mountpoint: File interface for S3, with support for multi-NIC and distributed caching.
  • Machine Learning Optimizations: S3 connector for PyTorch, accelerating training data access and distributed checkpointing.
  • Data Lake Optimizations: Analytics Accelerator Library for optimized Parquet file access.
  • S3 Tables: New feature providing 10x higher transaction rates and 3x query performance compared to S3 Standard.

Applying Performance Optimizations

  1. Parallelization: Use techniques like multi-part uploads and parallel range GETs to improve throughput.
    • Beware of throttling due to shared prefixes - partition data to leverage scaled-up prefixes.
  2. Reducing Request Overhead: Use larger request sizes to amortize overhead, e.g., by combining small files.
  3. Prefetching and Caching: Prefetch data to overlap processing and I/O, and leverage caching (local, S3 Express, CloudFront) for frequently accessed data.

Key Takeaways

  1. Performance is a continuous investment area for S3, with many new features and optimizations.
  2. Optimize for workload performance, not just single request performance.
  3. Leverage parallelization, file size optimization, prefetching, and caching to improve performance.

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