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:
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