On Thursday 04 May 2017 14:47:54 John R Pierce wrote:
> On 5/4/2017 2:28 PM, Alan Hodgson wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 May 2017 14:21:00 John R Pierce wrote:
> >> or EBS, and I've heard from more than a few people that EBS can be
> >> something of a sand trap.
> >
> > Sorry for following up off-topic, but EBS has actually improved
> > considerably in the last few years. You can get guaranteed (and very
> > high) IOPS on SSD storage, and many instance types come with high-speed
> > throughput to EBS. It's much much better for databases than it was 5
> > years ago.
>
> has it become more stable when Amazon has their occasional major hiccups?
No ... when they have a major problem it generally cascades across the region,
and several outages have hit EBS in particular. In us-east-1, at least. Other
regions seem more reliable.