Yes it AWS allows ramdisks , here is the output from a machine root@ip-amazon-ip:/home/ubuntu# mkdir /mnt/ram mount -t ramfs -o size=2G ramfs /mnt/ram mount ra

Yes it AWS allows ramdisks , here is the output from a machine root@ip-amazon-ip:/home/ubuntu# mkdir /mnt/ram mount -t ramfs -o size=2G ramfs /mnt/ram mount ramfs on /mnt/ram type ramfs (rw,size=2G) There are the cache and memory settings Fore Firebird but is better to put the main full database on the fastest storage and that is RAM for the moment In Firebird we have a nifty feature called Shadow that creates a life snapshots of the active database (Think of it as Replication in real time) so you can activate it and keep a safe database on the SSD/HDD http://ibexpert.net/ibe/index.php?n=Doc.DatabaseShadow http://ibexpert.net/ibe/index.php?n=Doc.DatabaseShadow