sharktour

Thanks for the heads up on Avere. Use case for us was for file parsing as part of a batch data pipeline. The latency we saw on alternatives was killer compared to directly mounted EBS. That would be my fear with an S3 option as well, especially when it presents like NFS.

This doesn't fill the huge gap for Cloud NAS. GlusterFS is hugely complicated and a fragile install, SoftNAS has (anecdotally) poor performance on high-io... but it's closer. Amazon hasn't launched their EFS product to General Availability Yet.

So wtf do we do when we need a 5TB shared storage platform across some EC2 nodes?