[jamesblonde]

With 2 modern NVMe disks per host (15 GB/s) and pcie 5.0, it should only take 15s to read 30 TB into memory on 63 hosts.

You can find those disks on Hetzner. Not AWS, though.

[jiggawatts]

I don’t understand why both Azure and AWS have local SSDs that are an order of magnitude slower than what I can get in a laptop. If Hetzner can do it, surely so can they!

Not to mention that Azure now exposes local drives as raw NVMe devices mapped straight through to the guest with no virtualisation overheads.

[jamesblonde]

It would undercut all their higher level services - like DynamoDB, CosmosDB, etc.

Databases would suddenly go BRRR in the cloud and show up cloud-native (S3) based databases for the high latency services they are.