On Apr 3, 2014, at 12:47 PM, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote:
> On 4/3/2014 9:26 AM, Joe Van Dyk wrote: >> Related, anyone have any thoughts on using postgresql on Amazon's EC2 SSDs? >> Been looking at >> http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/12/19/announcing-the-next-generation-of-amazon-ec2-high-i/o-instance >> > > if your data isn't very important, by all means, keep it on someone elses > virtualized infrastructure with no performance or reliability guarantees. Well that’s not quite fair. AWS guarantees performance for those instances (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/i2-instances.html#i2-instances-diskperf). They also guarantee their instances will fail sooner or later, with or without warning (at which point you will loose all your data unless you’ve been putting copies onto a different system).
