Comments on: Amazon launches high-performance SSD instances http://gigaom.com/2012/07/19/amazon-launches-database-friendly-ssd-backed-instances/ Thu, 23 May 2013 18:21:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Frederick http://gigaom.com/2012/07/19/amazon-launches-database-friendly-ssd-backed-instances/#comment-866523 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:31:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=544400#comment-866523 I was waiting for it. Great news, especially for heavy loaded systems (e.g., databases).

dba square team performed some benchmarks and it looks fine.

http://www.dbasquare.com/2012/07/20/amazon-ec2-now-powered-by-high-performance-storage-ssd/

The only problem is price of EC2 SSD. Do they count for IO as for regular storage?

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