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> Spiking Demand – You are running a relational database on a Provisioned IOPS volume that is set to handle a moderate amount of traffic during the month, with

> Spiking Demand – You are running a relational database on a Provisioned IOPS volume that is set to handle a moderate amount of traffic during the month, with a 10x spike in traffic during the final three days of each month due to month-end processing. You can use Elastic Volumes to dial up the provisioning in order to handle the spike, and then dial it down afterward. At first I was a little dubious of the usefulness of this update, but that features is actually really useful. I'm not sure what the granularity is, but it would be nice to crank up he iops on a DB when doing some large batch operations.

mark242 10y ago
If this is possible with RDS, that's huge. It's extremely frustrating to deal with spikes of transitory data into RDS and have to have the RDS disk space be sized to the maximum amount of space always-- it's a huge cost waste.
- JamesSwift 10y ago
  Reading through the caveat page [1], it seems the marketing copy is not quite in line with reality in terms of ability to scale down directly: > Decreasing the size of an EBS volume is not supported. However, you can create a smaller volume and then migrate your data to it using application-level tools such as robocopy. [1] - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/considerations.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/consider...
  - inopinatus 10y ago
    The blurb is not misleading. PIOPS are a performance measure distinct from volume size.