BrandPost: ScyllaDB on the New AWS EC2 I4i Instances: Twice the Throughput & Lower Latency
As you might have heard, AWS recently released a new AWS EC2 instance type perfect for data-intensive storage and IO-heavy workloads like ScyllaDB: the Intel-based I4i. According to the AWS I4i description, “Amazon EC2 I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and feature up to 30 TB of local AWS Nitro SSD storage. Nitro SSDs are NVMe-based and custom-designed by AWS to provide high I/O performance, low latency, minimal latency variability, and security with always-on encryption.”
Now that the I4i series is officially available, we can share benchmark results that demonstrate the impressive performance we achieved on them with ScyllaDB (a high-performance NoSQL database that can tap the full power of high-performance cloud computing instances).