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As enterprises transform to meet the rapidly changing workload demands and ever evolving requirements, organizations need to consider several critical factors when deciding on deployment options for their workloads. These factors include performance, flexibility, reliability, availability, and scaling.
This white paper describes the deployment of PostgreSQL on Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS (formerly known as PowerFlex cloud storage on AWS).
PostgreSQL and PowerFlex benefit from each other in many ways. PowerFlex can provide all the performance needs of the databases while able to scale and grow with demand. PowerFlex is a software-defined infrastructure that offers organizations the flexibility to deploy database workloads across cloud environments. By using PowerFlex capabilities, organizations can optimize their infrastructure choices and adapt to evolving business needs.
Cloud-based solutions provide dynamic and flexible scaling options, ease of management, and resource consumption based on demand. This scalability is beneficial for growing workloads or workloads with infrequent but critical peaks that requires dynamic scaling.
This paper also describes the performance best practices for deploying PostgreSQL databases on Amazon AWS environments.