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by AdamProut 1028 days ago
yeah, that is part of the trade off. Using an ephemeral SSD (for a database) means the database needs to have another means of making the data durable (replication, storing data in S3, etc.).

There are AWS instance types (I3en) with large and very fast SSDs (many times higher IOPS then EBS).