🔧 Throughput vs IOPS vs Latency Beyond Storage Network, Compute and Cloud Performance Explained

1. Introduction


Most engineers first encounter throughput, IOPS, and latency in the context of storage. You provision an EBS volume, you see three numbers, and you move on. This is a mistake — and it compounds over years of building systems that mysteriously underperform.

These three metrics are not storage concepts. They are fundamental...