AWS increases Epic database sizing options for customers
Industries Blog
This article announces that AWS, in collaboration with Epic, has increased the database sizing options for Epic's Chronicles Operational Database (ODB) running on AWS. It highlights the following key points:
Specifically, the article covers:
- Epic's ODB can now be sized up to 75 million global references per second (GRefs/s) on AWS using Amazon EC2 R7an.48xlarge instances with io2 Block Express volumes in a horizontally scaled (ECP) architecture.
- For single server mode (SMP), AWS delivered a sizing increase up to 47.3M GRefs/s, representing a 68% increase since the previous update in October 2023.
- AWS has increased the ECP sizing by 150% over the past 12 months.
- The R7an instances are powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors and the AWS Nitro System, providing improved compute and networking performance.
- io2 Block Express volumes offer sub-millisecond latency, larger capacity, IOPS, and throughput, delivering up to 2.5x better average I/O latency than major cloud providers.
- Conclusion: AWS's global infrastructure and collaboration with Epic enable increased database sizing options and performance for Epic customers running on AWS.
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