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spittakes reading the suggestion of replacing NVMe with EBS I mean, yeah, I guess you can. But a lot depends on your use case and SLA. If you need to keep ultr
by PeterCorless 6y ago
spittakes reading the suggestion of replacing NVMe with EBS
I mean, yeah, I guess you can. But a lot depends on your use case and SLA. If you need to keep ultra-low p99s — single digits — then EBS is not a real option.
But if you don't mind latencies, then yeah, fine.
Don't get me wrong: EBS is great. But it's not a panacea and strikes me as a mismatch for a high performance monster system. If you need NVMe, you need NVMe.
- dastbe 6y agoIt wasn't a suggestion of replacement, it was saying that even the closest instance still doesn't get you 24TB of on-host storage, having to use EBS instead.
- PeterCorless 6y agoThis starts going down a rabbit hole of tiered storage then. Because unless you design for that, you can only be as fast as your slowest storage. It'd be like tying a 20 kg weight to the leg of a sprinter otherwise.