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Amazon's latency is measured in hours, whatever process they use involves literally cold storage, either disks that are completely switched off, or some tape-li
by _wmd 10y ago
Amazon's latency is measured in hours, whatever process they use involves literally cold storage, either disks that are completely switched off, or some tape-like media archive system, but the article makes a good case for why it's almost certainly not tape
- CydeWeys 10y agoIt could still be normal disks, if we're feeling conspiratorial. It's easy to make faster storage slower; just add waits. Or maybe they make it take up to five hours so they can avoid peak traffic times in whatever data center your info happens to be located in.