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wild part is that there's been zero observable difference in performance for this config change, I think it's just a difference in billing calculation.



> I think it's just a difference in billing calculation

Agree. It feels like an actuary ran some numbers and found that high I/O customers spend more on other AWS services and are more profitable than low I/0 tenants, so they changed the formula to reduce churning those high I/0 tenants.


This feels likely!


Our commit latency dropped when we turned it on, so _something_ changed on a technical level




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