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Amazon CloudWatch now monitors EBS volumes exceeding provisioned performance

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The article announces the general availability of two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor the performance of Amazon EBS volumes: Volume IOPS Exceeded Check and Volume Throughput Exceeded Check. These metrics provide insight into whether an application is attempting to exceed the provisioned performance of an EBS volume.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • The two new CloudWatch metrics monitor if the driven IOPS or throughput exceeds the provisioned performance of an EBS volume
  • The metrics return 0 (performance not exceeded) or 1 (performance exceeded)
  • These metrics help identify and respond to latency issues caused by under-provisioned EBS volumes
  • The metrics are available at 1-minute frequency at no additional charge for EBS volumes attached to Nitro-based EC2 instances
  • The metrics are accessible via EC2 console, CLI, or CloudWatch API in all commercial AWS regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
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