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by emmjay_ 1429 days ago
Heh. It's not tape. :)

If you provisioned a really small amount of GP2, you can run out of I/O credits pretty quickly and get throttled to baseline performance (and it used to be 7 times the storage provisioned, or some such, and now it's 100 IOPS). That's brutally slow for a working database.