Volumez Instance: Performance Block Storage (Pay-as-you-go)

Are you overprovisioning for data-intensive workloads, only to face unpredictable performance and skyrocketing cloud costs? If you are running relational or NoSQL databases on EC2 (Oracle, MySQL, Apache Cassandra, MongoDB), building AI/ML data pipelines, migrating HPC workloads, or deploying EKS clusters, you are facing trade-offs with IOPS limitations and unpredictable latency, only to get idle compute, long runtimes, and cloud waste.

A Volumez instance fundamentally transforms cloud block storage. A Volumez instance is a logical volume composed entirely of native AWS resources, typically leveraging storage-optimized EC2 types like the is4gen family. All components, from the storage layer to the application node, run on AWS-supported Linux, ensuring full-stack compatibility and observability within your cloud environment.

Volumez DIaaS (Data Infrastructure as a Service) automates the composition and orchestration of these instances. It dynamically provisions infrastructure tailored to workload-specific performance and cost profiles, giving platform teams fine-grained control over IaaS optimization, without manual tuning or vendor lock-in.

Key benefits of the Volumez instance

• Turbocharge Databases: Achieve consistent sub-millisecond latency and high IOPS for relational or NoSQL databases on EC2 (Oracle, MySQL, Apache Cassandra, MongoDB). Volumez delivers up to 8X higher performance than standard cloud storage, removing latency spikes from your workloads.
• Eliminate Overprovisioning: Get only the IOPS, throughput, and latency your workload needs, no waste, no overbuild. With direct data paths and no controllers, you avoid noisy neighbors and cut complexity, without sacrificing performance.
• Optimize Cloud Costs: By avoiding overprovisioning and only allocating resources as required, a Volumez instance ensures customers pay only for what they need, improving cloud ROI and reducing waste.
• Accelerate AI/ML Data Pipelines: Increase GPU utilization to nearly 100% by feeding data 10X faster to GPU clusters, eliminating costly compute idle time and accelerating time to market. The Volumez instance boosts vector search with 3X more Queries Per Second (QPS) and 5X lower latency, and scales seamlessly across AI/ML, RAG, and ELT.
• Get Enterprise-grade Data Services: Despite leveraging ephemeral instance storage, the Volumez instance delivers advanced data services such as snapshots, encryption, thin provisioning, and multi-zone resilience, all built on standard Linux components.
• Integrate Without Disruption: No re-architecture required. The Volumez instance drops cleanly into your existing environment with zero application changes, so your teams can keep building while bottlenecks quietly disappear.

A Volumez instance changes the paradigm of cloud block storage by making it composable, high-performance, and easy to manage, with enterprise-grade features delivered through a direct Linux data path tailored to each application's requirements.

Pricing Example

For example, say that you provision a 50,000 IOPS; 1,500 GB; and 1,000 MB/s volume for an Oracle database for 720 hours in a 30-day month. We will use on-demand pricing, no discounts.

Volumez instance using two Amazon i4i.2xlarge media nodes.

• Total Volumez Units = 442.00, calculated as IOPS (0.0085 provisioned IOPS-month * 50,000) + Capacity (0.006/GB-month * 1,5000) + Thruput (0.008 MB/s-month * 1,000)

• Volumez Licensing = $1,326.00 per month, calculated as Total Volumez Units * $3.00 cost per unit.

• Media Nodes (2 x i4i.2xlarge) = $987.84, calculated as $0.686 per hour * 720 hours-month * 2.

• Total Volumez Instance cost = $2,313.84, calculated as Volumez licensing + Media Nodes.

Amazon EBS io2 Block Express

• Capacity = $187.50, calculated as $0.1250 * 1,500 GB-month.

• IOPS = $2,908.00, calculated as $0.065 * 32,000 provisioned IOPS-month + $0.046 * 18,000 provisioned IOPS-month.

• Total io2 Block Express cost = $3,095.50, calculated as Capacity + IOPS.

Volumez instance is a 25% cost savings over io2 Block Express. If RI 1-year commit pricing (30% discount) is used for the EC2 instances, then the cost savings vs. io2 is 35%.