This post is a followup to my previous article https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/29/scaling-io-bound-workloads-mysql-cloud/ In this instance, I want to show the data in different dimensions, primarily to answer questions around how throughput scales with increasing IOPS. A recap: for the test I use Amazon instances and Amazon gp2 and io1 volumes. In addition to the original post, I also tested