[ckdarby]

I recommend getting off EBS and switching over to the i3 instance types. AWS pricing for the IOPS is crazy on EBS.

[a012]

the downside of i3 is you'll lose your data when instance is stopped, then you have to have another place to keep this data permanently.

[inopinatus]

Fun story: I once heard of a startup that was keeping all their data on ephemeral local storage, mirroring it between instances across AZs for "high availability", and then, er, using spot pricing for all instances to save money.

One day the spot price skyrocketed and all their databases got shot down.

And that, I presume, was the end of the company.

[a012]

for a second, I've thought it's me, except I don't use spot instance. I use i3 for IOPS with EBS backing it up