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Disclaimer: I work for OCI, opinion my own etc. We offer faster NVMe drives in instances. Our E4 Dense shapes ship with SAMSUNG MZWLJ7T6HALA-00AU3, which supp
by Twirrim 3y ago
Disclaimer: I work for OCI, opinion my own etc.
We offer faster NVMe drives in instances. Our E4 Dense shapes ship with SAMSUNG MZWLJ7T6HALA-00AU3, which supports Sequential Reads of 7000 MB/s, and Sequential Write 3800 MB/s.
From a general perspective, I would say the _likely_ answer to why AWS doesn't have faster NVMes at the moment is likely to be lack of specific demand. That's a guess, but that's generally how things go. If there's not enough specific demand being fed in through TAMs and the like for faster disks, upgrades are likely to be more of an after-thought, or reflecting supply chain.
I know there's a tendency when you engineer things, to just work around, or work with the constraints, and grumble amongst your team, but it's incredibly invaluable if you can make sure your account manager knows what shortcomings you've had to work around.
- nine_k 3y agoI very much expect AWS SSD / NVMe upgrades to be well thought-out ahead of time, and optimized for both upfront cost and for longevity / durability. Speed may be a third consideration.
- flaminHotSpeedo 3y agoYeah, hardware and forecasting for cloud providers is basically the definition of deliberate. If anything I'd guess it's a procurement issue, parity between regions is a big thing and it's hard to supply dozens of regions around the world with the latest hardware hotness
- e12e 3y ago> I work for OCI Ah: Oracle cloud infra https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/announcing-e4-denseio-instances-with-2x-performance-for-database-and-analytics-workloads https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/announcin... I keep forgetting Oracle is in the cloud business too. "Make it rain", I guess :)
- Twirrim 3y agoDoh, sorry. I'm usually good about not using that acronym!