EBS is fine until it isn't. The problem isn't general EBS suckage, it's unpredictable and sporadic suckage. When your DB server is blocking while it tries to wr

EBS is fine until it isn't. The problem isn't general EBS suckage, it's unpredictable and sporadic suckage. When your DB server is blocking while it tries to write to a disk that isn't responding, things get really hairy really quickly.