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: 0.233s | source

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c0l0 ◴[20 Feb 24 17:37 UTC] No.39444187[source]▶

Seeing the really just puny "provisioned IOPS" numbers on hugely expensive cloud instances made me chuckle (first in disbelief, then in horror) when I joined a "cloud-first" enterprise shop in 2020 (having come from a company that hosted their own hardware at a colo).

It's no wonder that many people nowadays, esp. those who are so young that they've never experienced anything but cloud instances, seem to have little idea of how much performance you can actually pack in just one or two RUs today. Ultra-fast (I'm not parroting some marketing speak here - I just take a look at IOPS numbers, and compare them to those from highest-end storage some 10-12 years ago) NVMe storage is a big part of that astonishing magic.

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dboreham ◴[21 Feb 24 03:48 UTC] No.39449930[source]▶

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Some of us are making a good living offboarding workloads from cloud onto bare metal with on-node NVMe storage.

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1. dijit ◴[21 Feb 24 09:35 UTC] No.39451814[source]▶

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Really? I'd like to do this as a job.

Are you hiring?

Cloud is great for prototyping or randomly elastic workloads, but it feels like people are pushing highly static workloads from on-prem to cloud. I'd love to be part of the change going the other way. Especially since the skills for doing so seem to have dried up completely.

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