Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides the opportunity to use it with the EC2 service of AWS that can scale and adapt to meet the performance requirements. Input/Output Operations is a process of Reading data from a disk and Writing it on the Disk. IOPS means Input/Output Operations that have been executed within a second.

Let’s start with how to calculate IOPS in AWS.

Calculate IOPS in AWS

To calculate the Input/Output Operations Per Second(IOPS), Sign in to the AWS Management page as a Root user by providing the Email address and clicking on the “Next” page:

On this page, type the password to sign in to the AWS account and then click on the “Sign in” button:

The user will be directed to the AWS account page. From there, simply click on the “Services” button to expand all the services. Click on the “Compute” button from the service classification panel and it will display all the services related to it. After that, click on the EC2 service to head into its dashboard:

On the EC2 dashboard, scroll down the left panel to locate the “Elastic Block Store (EBS)” section to click on the “Volumes” button:

On the Volumes page, the platform displays the calculated “IOPS” for each volume in the list:

You have successfully located the calculated IOPS in AWS.

IOPS vs Throughput

Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) is the measure of I/O operations a drive Solid State Drive or Hard Disk Drive will handle per second. Throughput is the sequential data transfer rate that an SSD or HDD will maintain constantly. IO size is an important aspect in calculating the IOPS and throughput. A bigger IO size will give better throughput, whereas a smaller IO size will give better IOPS.

Conclusion

To calculate the Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) in AWS, sign in to the AWS Management Console by providing the “Email” and “Password” for the Root user. Locate the EC2 service from the AWS console from the platform and then head into the “Volumes” page from the EC2 dashboard and check the calculated IOPS in AWS.