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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
- 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.
- Reducing Request Overhead: Use larger request sizes to amortize overhead, e.g., by combining small files.
- Prefetching and Caching: Prefetch data to overlap processing and I/O, and leverage caching (local, S3 Express, CloudFront) for frequently accessed data.
Key Takeaways
- Performance is a continuous investment area for S3, with many new features and optimizations.
- Optimize for workload performance, not just single request performance.
- Leverage parallelization, file size optimization, prefetching, and caching to improve performance.