[szarnyasg]

Hi – DuckDB Labs devrel here. It's great that you find DuckDB useful!

On the setup side, I agree that local (instance-attached) disks should be preferred but does EBS incur an IO fee? It incurs a significant latency for sure but it doesn't have a per-operation pricing:

> I/O is included in the price of the volumes, so you pay only for each GB of storage you provision.

(https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/)

[ramraj07]

Can’t remember anymore, but it’s either (a) the gp2 volumes were way too slow for the ops or (b) the IOPs charges made it bad. To be clear I didn’t do it on duckdb but hosted a Postgres. I moved to light sail instead and was happy with it (you don’t get attached SSD in ec2 until you go to instances that are super large).