The author says they max out at 1.25 GB/s. That's a long way from the theoretical max when it comes to even DDR3. It's possible they are bound by the SSD speed

The author says they max out at 1.25 GB/s. That's a long way from the theoretical max when it comes to even DDR3. It's possible they are bound by the SSD speed. I can't find much on AWS SSD max speeds.