by Adrian Cockcroft Today AWS has launched a new Solid State Disk (SSD) based instance that addresses the need for high performance I/O, and we have run a few initial benchmarks to see how it shapes up. With this announcement AWS makes it easy to provision extremely high I/O capacity with consistently low latency. AWS has been competitive in instance memory capacity for a long time and is leading
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