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by mattrobenolt 267 days ago
It's still AWS/GCP, but it uses instance types with local NVMes.
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so it's a "bare metal" virtual machine? Or are they actually using the bare metal offerings for the cloud provider?
Still in virtual machines, but ones with local NVMe drives rather than network-attached storage (EBS, Persistent Disk). This means incredible I/O performance.

https://planetscale.com/blog/benchmarking-postgres