I saw the section on EBS, but it didn't offer much advice. Getting good performance on networked storage is the biggest challenge to me. The last time I asked about that here [1], I got this answer:
nasalgoat 161 days ago [-]
The secret to EBS is to use General SSD,
not Provisioned, but use a RAID stripe.
The reason this works is because IOPS are provisioned
per EBS drive and by the size of the drive. So a RAID0
stripe of, say, ten General SSD drives will outperform
the more expensive PIOPS single drive.
That sounds like a great approach, although I haven't had time to try it out yet. I'm curious if anyone else has done anything like that.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12609172