Amazon going High Performance I/O with new Instances: 2 SSDS of 1 TB !

• Amazon introduce new instance High I/O Quadruple Extra Large (hi1.4xlarge)
• 8 cores and 60.5GB of memory
• 2 SSDs of 1 TB
• top engineers from Netflix, Facebook, Tumblr, etc.. proclaimed that in all of their systems the scaling bottleneck  had been the database

More info:

Expanding The Cloud – High Performance I/O Instances for Amazon EC2 – All Things Distributed:

(Via www.allthingsdistributed.com)