Lightbits Block Storage on AWS
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AWS Customer Stories
One of the world’s largest financial institutions is building their cloud with Lightbits on AWS. Embracing IT modernization with a cloud-first approach, this company is migrating all new high-performance database workloads (e.g., NoSQL) to AWS. Having familiarity with Lightbits in their on-premises data center, they relied on our expertise to help architect a hybrid scheme. Their requirement was a storage platform that would deliver a similar experience between their on-premises environment and AWS.
Lightbits Block Storage on AWS Advantages
Efficiency
Efficiency
- Compression and compaction
- Thin Provisioning
- Cluster auto scale up and down
- FREE inclusive and flexible snapshots and clones
- FREE restores
- Per volume replication policies
- Pay only for used capacity, not provisioned capacity
- Auto healing
High Performance and Consistent
Low Latency
High Performance and Consistent
Low Latency
- 1M IOPS/volume
- Low <500 µsec avg latency
- Low <1 msec tail latency
- Accelerate application performance without adding cores or nodes
Ease of Use
Ease of Use
- Super fast and simple installation and deployment
AMI-based setup - Available on AWS Marketplace
- API and command-line
- Cluster auto scale up and down
- Automated cluster load distribution & rebalancing
- Auto upgrades
- Cloud and on premises
| AWS EBS | Lightbits Block Storage on AWS | Lightbits Advantage | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pay by Usage | No | Yes | Pay for what you deploy, not provision |
| IOPs | No, 256k / volume | 1M / volume | Meet application demands |
| Snapshots | $/snapshot | no fee | Backup as needed |
| Restores and Clones | $/Restore and Clone | no fee | High-speed restore |
| Cloud and On-Premise | Cloud Only | Yes | Flexibility |
| Thin Provisioning | No | Yes | Auto-scale clusters |
| Compression | No | Yes | Capacity efficiency |
Single/Multi-Availability Zones
When used with Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Lightbits delivers enterprise-grade, resilient AWS block storage that is easy to use, faster than native storage solutions, and provides greater cost-efficiency.
What is the difference between Amazon EBS vs Amazon S3?
How do I Ensure Data Durability and Availability on AWS?
What are Some Best Practices for Optimizing Performance on AWS?
What is the difference between Amazon EBS vs Amazon S3?
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is AWS high performance block storage for Amazon EC2 instances, providing low-latency and high-throughput for database applications, file systems, and more.
There are many block storage on AWS solutions. Lightbits delivers enterprise-grade, resilient block storage that is easy to deploy and use. Lightbits provides greater cost-efficiency and amazing performance levels to boost your applications. For Lightbits Block Storage on AWS visit the AWS Marketplace.
Amazon S3, in contrast, is object storage, suitable for storing and retrieving any amount of data but not meant to work as the underlying storage for an operating system or application that requires block-level storage.
How do I Ensure Data Durability and Availability on AWS?
Lightbits Block Storage on AWS:
Lightbits delivers a range of enterprise solutions lacking in EBS, such as multi-tenancy, quality of service (QoS), user defined
replication, and failure domains. Data is protected from single instance failure by replication of data across instances. In addition Lightbits’ auto-healing functionality replaces instances in the cluster which failed due to AWS infrastructure failure. Snapshots, clones, and restores are included in the Lightbits software without any additional fees.
Amazon EBS Volumes:
Stored within an Availability Zone and automatically replicated within that zone to prevent data loss from hardware failures. Additionally, EBS provides different volume types, like SSD-backed and HDD-backed options, allowing users to choose the optimal balance of performance and cost while benefiting from high durability and availability.
What are Some Best Practices for Optimizing Performance on AWS?
Amazon EBS:
Select the correct EBS volume type based on your workload requirements (e.g., Provisioned IOPS SSD for I/O-intensive databases) ensuring the EC2 instance type is compatible with the intended IOPS and throughput levels. On AWS, you will pay for provisioned IOPS.
Lightbits Block Storage on AWS:
While IOPS measurements are dependent upon multiple configuration options, Lightbits block storage on AWS is agile and scalable with 1.5+ million IOPS per volume, it is 6X faster than AWS EBS. The Lightbits advantage is that you can accelerate performance without adding cores or nodes and you will only pay for storage you deploy, not provision.