Nati Cohen and Sercan Karaoğlu, AWS
Cloud environments offer incredible flexibility, but sometimes workloads experience unexpected performance fluctuations. While many applications can handle these variations, tasks such as high-frequency trading, online gaming, and performance regression testing require consistent performance. This session explores the root causes of performance variation in the cloud and provides actionable strategies to minimize unpredictability in processing, networking, and storage. We’ll also discuss the trade-offs and costs involved, helping you design and optimize cloud-based systems with confidence.
Nati is a Solutions Architect with AWS. He delights in helping customers simplify complex systems, teaching them about the inner workings of cloud services and debugging annoying technical oddities. When he is not at his computer he is soldering electronic kits, tinkering with smaller computers and drumming on a Taiko.
Sercan Karaoğlu is a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, specializing in designing and implementing cutting-edge solutions for High Frequency Trading Companies. With extensive experience in data-intensive solutions, big data, low latency high throughput distributed systems, and machine learning, Sercan brings unique insights to performance optimization in cloud environments.
author = {Nati Cohen and Sercan Karaoglu},
title = {Performance Consistency in the Cloud},
year = {2025},
address = {Dublin},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = oct
}
