Conclusion

This whitepaper helps SAS customers and migration consultants understand the different AWS capabilities that best meet the needs of their SAS workloads. They key takeaway is that I/O throughput is crucial and can be a limiting factor in successful SAS deployments on AWS if not implemented correctly.

At the same time, it is important for AWS migration consultants and solutions architects to broadly understand SAS infrastructure and its components, so that they can match the base performance requirements with the corresponding infrastructure and technical improvements being released by AWS.

This whitepaper raises awareness of SAS workload requirements within its core and ancillary components, and how to best meet those requirements in AWS. It is crucial to understand that the choice of compute, storage, and application architecture placement are key for achieving the best performance that AWS can offer for SAS deployments.

The information in this paper is based on customer experience and expertise from SAS and AWS working together at the time of writing of this paper. AWS offerings are constantly improving, and therefore it is in the best interest of the reader to understand the rationale used in the selection process and to consider what was done as a point-in- time design.