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by Anderkent 3085 days ago
Every cloud provider I've worked with (okay, so AWS :P) gives you ephemeral local storage. Obvioulsy you don't swap onto a network drive.
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akerl_ 3085 days ago
Even on AWS they're phasing out local storage on new instance types: https://ec2instances.info/ (search for ec2 only, but it's the majority of new instance families)
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whopa 3085 days ago
Modern AWS instance types are EBS-only.
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eikenberry 3085 days ago
With the exception of the High IO types (I2/I3). They still get it and the newer instances get NVMe SSDs. In other words they are making it a feature of certain types that would benefit from it.
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_msw_ 3085 days ago
For example, F1 instances have NVMe local instance storage.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/f1/

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Anderkent 3085 days ago
Huh. You're right; it seems for the newer instance types only c1.medium and m1.small get swap mounts. That seems like a mistake by aws; but I guess you can a M3 instead of a M5.
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