What is the performance of SoftNAS for AWS?

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Last updated: Jan 28, 2021 by Former user (Deleted)

  • Up to 10,000 IOPS on Amazon EC2

  • 40,000+ IOPS with SSD cache

SoftNAS’ new patent pending ObjFast™ technology writes data to Amazon S3 Storage up to 200% faster when compared between SoftNAS v3.4.9 and v3.5.4. This improvement allows customers to use lower-cost cloud object storage backends (AWS S3) with performance levels rivaling that of cloud block storage backends (AWS EBS).

AWS NFS Performance



  • 208% improvement in NFS IOPS using Amazon S3

  • 209% improvement in NFS throughput using Amazon S3

AWS CIFS/SMB Performance



  • 225% improvement in CIFS IOPS on using Amazon S3

  • 219% improvement in CIFS throughput using Amazon S3

AWS iSCSI Performance


  • 221% improvement in iSCSI IOPS using Amazon S3

  • 205% improvement in iSCSI throughput using Amazon S3