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Re:Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now generally available by bpicolo on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @09:59PM (#16872785)
AWS and GCP both have nvme SSDs for instance types intended for big-ol DBs

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ssd-inst...

Re:Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now generally available by manigandham on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @10:29PM (#16872900)
Yes, I know. This thread is about managed database services, specifically about Aiven vs cloud-direct. Aiven still runs VMs on AWS or GCP but offers nvme disks while neither RDS nor CloudSQL have that available.
Re:Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now generally available by bpicolo on Sunday April 22, 2018 @08:58AM (#16895969)
Ah I see, i3 isn’t in the RDS pool yet. I imagine it will be eventually?