This guy's blog posting suggests otherwise: "Remember, the speed and efficiency of the single EBS device is roughly comparable to a modern SATA or SCSI drive."

This guy's blog posting suggests otherwise: "Remember, the speed and efficiency of the single EBS device is roughly comparable to a modern SATA or SCSI drive." http://af-design.com/blog/2009/02/27/amazon-ec2-disk-performance/ http://af-design.com/blog/2009/02/27/amazon-ec2-disk-perform... Perhaps EBS has improved drastically over the past year?