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Do they make any promises about persistence of local NVMe after something like a full-region power outage yet? Because if you can't do durable commit on a single-region cluster that will be just temporarily unavailable without loosing committed data if something like that happened, it's not quite there unless you still stream a WAL to storage that they do promise you will survive a full blackout of all zones that store (part of) the data.


Yes. They promise to wipe your data. That SLA has all the nines you can ask for as long as you measure it in the right direction :)


You already lose your data after instance restart so I think that full region outage is already out of question.


Idk how an AWS region would respond to a power outage, but i have tested this in AWS Outpost, and there, if you power down a rack, then power it back again, the baremetal instances will not be recreated. (I was surprised as I was expecting the EC2 health check to terminate them, but it does not work like that.) My understanding is that if you stop/start an instance, your local storage is gone (as the instance might even end up in a different host), but if you just reboot the instance, it should keep the local storage.




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