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Even the smallest instances have 160GB of storage, all the way up to 3TB on the cc2.8xlarge. New high I/O instances have 2TB of "holy shit fast, destroys my $1000 enterprise SSD" storage. (just tested it last week)


New high I/O instances have 2TB of "holy shit fast, destroys my $1000 enterprise SSD" storage.

Just a tongue-in-cheek comment: Those instances also cost over $2000 USD per month. For the same money you could buy a new Dell Server with 2-4 SSDs, every month. ;)


Lol, very true, but for 3-4 hour workloads they are perfect- which I think is one of the "makes the most sense" kind of EC2 workloads.

In this case, I had about 8 million output files from a Hadoop job that I needed to process with MySQL- it was perfect!


THey're only $2000 if you don't have reserved instances.




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