Chesapeake Times, Vol 3 | October 2020 SonarWiz 7.7 will be the first release of SonarWiz to be officially supported on Amazon AWS. As we prepare to release this new version of the program, we have been working to develop best practices and recommendations for setting up an AWS environment that will run SonarWiz as efficiently as possible. We developed a short list of typical sidescan operations that we are using to benchmark different AWS configurations. In our initial experiments we tested 13 different AWS configurations and one laptop for comparison and measured how long they took to complete our …