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How Agnostic Engineering improved storage latency for running Polygon nodes on AWS

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The article discusses how Agnostic Engineering improved storage latency for running Polygon nodes on AWS using a combination of instance store volumes and EBS gp3 volumes.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • The need for low-latency read operations to keep blockchain nodes up-to-date
  • Using EC2 instance store volumes in RAID 0 configuration for low-latency storage
  • Mirroring data to an EBS gp3 volume using RAID 1 for durability
  • Setting up OpenZFS with data compression for space optimization
  • Providing a CloudFormation template for deploying the solution
  • Conclusion highlighting the performance and flexibility benefits


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