Amazon's options for local, high speed SSDs aren't very compelling either. You're limited to the I2 instances and have to increase the instance size in order to

Amazon's options for local, high speed SSDs aren't very compelling either. You're limited to the I2 instances and have to increase the instance size in order to increase storage performance https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/storage-optimized-instances.html#i2-instances-diskperf https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/storage-... Compare this to Google Cloud, where you can attach a local SSD to any instance type and you can increase the storage performance by increasing the volume size. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/performance https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/performance