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till-tum
9mo ago
For a lot of use cases such as caching (e.g., the ephemeral caching layer in Snowflake), ephemeral storage is good enough. If you really want to, you could also achieve persistence by replicating to multiple instances (afaik this is what Dy
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till-tum
9mo ago
I don't think this can be definitively answered without working for one of the hyperscalers. But here are some speculations: 1. Device speeds are intentionally capped to increase device lifetime (but this would only make sense for writ