This is a new talk, based on benchmarking work I did for the NoSQL database company AerospikeDB. In this talk you will learn best practices for performing database benchmarking on the AWS cloud. More broadly, these processes can be applied to your production workloads to get more speed and efficiency. Topics include set up practices and tuning techniques you can use to minimize network, disk, cpu and RAM bottlenecks. Also included is understanding how to choose and tune the appropriate AWS AMI instance type for your data workload. Databasese used are AerospikeDB and Redis. Additionally included are techniques to maximize performance for these two commonly used key-value stores on the AWS cloud.