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2 configuration parameters affect the IO performance of your AWS RDS instance. The throughput is limited by the instance class and the number of IOPS is limited by the storage configuration. With provisioned IOPS (SSD) (short io1) it’s explicit, as you specify the limit during the creation of the instance. The limit with general purpose …

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