This whitepaper is intended for Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers who are considering deploying their MySQL database on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) using Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. This whitepaper describes the features of EBS volumes and how they can affect the security, availability, durability, cost, and performance of MySQL databases. There are many deployment options and configurations for MySQL on Amazon EC2. This whitepaper provides performance benchmark metrics and general guidance so AWS customers can make an informed decision about whether to deploy their MySQL workloads on Amazon EC2.
