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Sure, within the boundaries of your disk array. Assuming a non-trivial size you'll need 1-2 fulltime people to run and scale that array, plus a nice chunk of investment into hardware.

EBS is just a mouse-click.




If you are so unconcerned with your storage that you're just mouse clicking around EBS setups, you don't' need 1-2 full-time people to run an array.


Sounds like you've never dealt with storage at scale.

It's far from "rack and forget" once you've grow beyond 2 racks.


I think you read the opposite of what I was trying to say.

I have dealt with storage 'at scale' enough to require a full team of storage people.

Some guy clicking buttons on the Amazon website is usually not a very effective way of dealing with storage 'at scale'.


Yes, sorry for reading you backwards.

However I maintain that EBS has it's place in a wide range of applications where raw I/O performance isn't the main concern (e.g. archival).




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