In our tests, Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS outperformed similarly configured solutions from Vendor A, achieving more IOPS, better throughput, and more consistent performance on both NVMe-supported configurations and configurations backed by Elastic Block Store (EBS) alone. Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS supports a full NVMe backed configuration, but Vendor A doesn’t—its solution uses EBS for storage capacity and NVMe as an extended read cache—which means APEX Block Storage for AWS can deliver faster storage performance.

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*on Vdbench **Results seen on a single 24-node NVMe-supported multi-AZ cluster
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Scale up your storage with higher-performing
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS
In our tests, Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS outperformed similarly configured solutions from
Vendor A*
, achieving more IOPS, better throughput, and more consistent performance on both
NVMe-supported configurations and configurations backed by Elastic Block Store (EBS) alone.
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS supports a full NVMe backed configuration, but Vendor A doesn’t—its solution
uses EBS for storage capacity and NVMe as an extended read cache—which means APEX Block Storage for AWS
can deliver faster storage performance.
Over 10 test runs, the Vendor A solution had up to a 62% degradation in performance per node, compared to a
3% drop or less for Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS.
Dell offers
4.7x
the IOPS
per node vs. Vendor A solution
237,406
49,737
NVMe-supported configurations
Random read IOPS at 128 threads and 4 KB IO size
IOPS per node, higher is better
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS
Vendor A solution
Dell offers
5.1x
the throughput
per node vs. Vendor A solution
5,244
1,009
NVMe-supported configurations
Sequential read throughput at 32 threads and 256 KB IO size
MB/s per node, higher is better
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS
Vendor A solution
Dell offers
More consistent
performance
vs Vendor A solution
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS scales to 512 storage nodes and 8 PB raw capacity
to support your organization as your needs grow, while the Vendor A solution does not scale past two nodes.
Scale to more than
140 GB/s
throughput
on a single cluster**
Scalability: Total cluster throughput from 3 nodes to 24 nodes
Sequential reads MB/s
3 nodes
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS
0
12 nodes 24 nodes
40,000
80,000
120,000
160,000
15,511
69,537
140,073
Scalability: Total cluster IOPS from 3 Nodes to 24 nodes
Random read IOPS
3 nodes
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS
12 nodes 24 nodes
0
2,000,000
4,000,000
6,000,000
Scale to more than
4.9M
IOPS
on a single cluster**
716,185
2,590,961
4,916,349
Dell APEX Block
Storage for AWS
Vendor A
NVMe
sequential read MB/s
3% 62%
NVMe
random read IOPS
<1% 45%
EBS
sequential read MB/s
<1% 57%
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