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by bpicolo 2982 days ago
AWS and GCP both have nvme SSDs for instance types intended for big-ol DBs

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ssd-inst...

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Yes, I know. This thread is about managed database services, specifically about Aiven vs cloud-direct. Aiven still runs VMs on AWS or GCP but offers nvme disks while neither RDS nor CloudSQL have that available.
Ah I see, i3 isn’t in the RDS pool yet. I imagine it will be eventually?