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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by amluto on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @01:21PM (#39444754)
Which is a weird sort of limitation. For any sort of you-own-the-hardware arrangement, NVMe disks are fine for long term storage. (Obviously one should have backups, but that’s a separate issue. One should have a DR plan for data on EBS, too.)

You need to migrate that data if you replace an entire server, but this usually isn’t a very big deal.

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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by supriyo-biswas on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @01:28PM (#39444869)
This is Hyrum’s law at play: AWS wants to make sure that the instance stores aren’t seen as persistent, and therefore enforce the failure mode for normal operations as well.

You should also see how they enforce similar things for their other products and APIs, for example, most of their services have encrypted pagination tokens.

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