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by arandomhuman 262 days ago
so it's a "bare metal" virtual machine? Or are they actually using the bare metal offerings for the cloud provider?
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bddicken 262 days ago
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

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