Joyent. Your compute and disks are colocated. Separation of compute and disks is a sure way to cause pain. On failure: http://www.joyent.com/blog/on-cascading

Joyent. Your compute and disks are colocated. Separation of compute and disks is a sure way to cause pain. On failure: http://www.joyent.com/blog/on-cascading-failures-and-amazons-elastic-block-store/ http://www.joyent.com/blog/on-cascading-failures-and-amazons... http://www.joyent.com/blog/network-storage-in-the-cloud-delicious-but-deadly/ http://www.joyent.com/blog/network-storage-in-the-cloud-deli... http://www.joyent.com/blog/magical-block-store-when-abstractions-fail-us/ http://www.joyent.com/blog/magical-block-store-when-abstract...