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> When I last tried, it, AWS RDS still required EBS-backed disks. Beyond having an IOPS ceiling, the other problem is latency spikes caused by EBS failures. At
by frakkingcylons 5y ago
> When I last tried, it, AWS RDS still required EBS-backed disks.
Beyond having an IOPS ceiling, the other problem is latency spikes caused by EBS failures. At my last job where we had a write heavy RDS instance, an EBS failure would occur almost monthly, with no warning, and cause write latency to spike 3-5x for a couple minutes. This was in 2017-2018.