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by kristjansson 42 days ago
SAN vs local. Local NVME (“instance storage“) on AWS is wicked fast too, but live and dies with the instance
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in 2026 you can full the PCIe BW from remote storage at roughly the same latency as your local NVMe drive (hello NVMeoF).

your comment would have been valid 10 years ago, maybe.

Well, cloud providers aren't exactly known for performance so the comment is still valid and will be for quite some time still.
Mind unwrapping this a bit more? I’m interested in iops heavy distributed caching and this seems like it unlocks some creative use cases there