AWS EBS gp2 is far from an NVMe drive. Everyone architects for AWS these days. So the limitations of EBS still dominate I/O: limited IOPS, limited bandwidth.

AWS EBS gp2 is far from an NVMe drive. Everyone architects for AWS these days. So the limitations of EBS still dominate I/O: limited IOPS, limited bandwidth. Yes there are ephemerals. Which are basically little more than ramdisks/caches to actual AWS design.