Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a comprehensive set of services and tools for deploying Oracle Database on the AWS Cloud infrastructure, one of the most reliable and secure cloud computing services available today. Many businesses of all sizes use Oracle Database to handle their data needs. Oracle Database performance relies heavily on the performance of the storage subsystem, but storage performance always comes at a price. This whitepaper includes information to help you determine the input/output operations per second (IOPS) necessary for your database storage system to have the best performance at optimal cost.