It's worth noting that you can speed up write operations on EBS volumes by first initializing them by writing data to every block on the volume. Subsequent wri

It's worth noting that you can speed up write operations on EBS volumes by first initializing them by writing data to every block on the volume. Subsequent writes will be faster due to the way Amazon virtualizes disks. http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2007-08-29/DeveloperGuide/instance-storage.html http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/2007-08-29/Develope...