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SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud

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589 points greghn | 1 comments | 20 Feb 24 16:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.388s | source
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bombcar ◴[20 Feb 24 17:14 UTC] No.39443872[source]▶
I think the obvious answer is there's not much demand, and keeping it "low" allows trickery and funny business with the virtualization layer (think: SAN, etc) that you can't do with "raw hardware speed".
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_Rabs_ ◴[20 Feb 24 17:20 UTC] No.39443971[source]▶
Sure, but it does make me wonder what kind of speeds we are paying for if we can't even get raw hardware speeds...

Sounds like one more excuse for AWS to obfuscate any meaning in their billing structure and take control of the narrative.

How much are they getting away with by virtualization. (Think how banks use your money for loans and stuff)

You actually don't get to really see the internals other than IOPS which doesn't help when it's gatekept already.

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bombcar ◴[20 Feb 24 18:01 UTC] No.39444504[source]▶
The biggest "scam" if you can call it that is reducing all factors of CPU performance to "cores".
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1. zokier ◴[21 Feb 24 01:05 UTC] No.39449042[source]▶
AWS is pretty transparent about what sort of cores you are exactly getting, and has different types available for different use-cases; typical example would something like r7iz that is aimed for peak single-threaded perf https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/r7iz/