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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by colechristensen on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @12:49PM (#39444341)
For AWS there are EBS volumes attached through a custom hardware NVMe interface and then there's Instance Store which is actually local SSD storage. These are different things.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/Instance...

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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by kwillets on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @01:17PM (#39444710)
EBS is also slower than local NVMe mounts on i3's.

Also, both features use Nitro SSD cards, according to AWS docs. The Nitro architecture is all locally attached -- instance storage to the instance, EBS to the EBS server.

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