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NVME over Fabric. Only started to become available last year in AWS' more expensive instance types. But hoping it will become more widespread. Benchmarks with

NVME over Fabric. Only started to become available last year in AWS' more expensive instance types. But hoping it will become more widespread. Benchmarks with Spark result in real world performance improvements of 2-3x and SSDs will be much faster with PCIe4.0.

cperciva 6y ago
The m5 instance family was announced in 2017, IIRC.
- threeseed 6y ago
  Sure but the Elastic Fabric Adapter is only on the top tier of instance types. Hoping it trickles down for us normal people.
  - cperciva 6y ago
    Oh, I thought you were talking about how EBS disks are presented as NVMe even though they run over the EC2 network fabric.