Amazon speeds up its cloud with SSD block storage
Market leader AWS is attempting to widen its lead. Amazon Web Services has launched a new general purpose Elastic Block Store that runs fully on solid state drives (SSD), which the leading IaaS cloud vendor says will provide dramatically better performance for users compared to previous-generation spinning disk persistent storage. Practical advice for you to take full advantage of the benefits of APM and keep your IT environment In addition to announcing all SSD General Purpose EBS Volumes today, AWS reduced prices for its EBS services by 35%, which represent the 43rd price drop the company has announced since 2006. Read about the news from AWS here. The new General Purpose SSD-backed EBS volumes come with a 99.999% availability guarantee and are meant to be used for any range of block storage use cases in AWS. Block storage is persistent storage that can be attached to compute instances, in this case AWS’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), and they’re used commonly to ho...