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by mattlong 22 days ago
I'd be very curious to see you add the Optimized Reads instance types, e.g. r8gd or m8gd, to your benchmark. They add a local NVMe-based SSD block storage that serves as a cache in front of the network-based disks among other use cases. They have been a huge win for us for a read-heavy workload where the dataset is significantly larger than memory.

Edit: Apologies, on a closer read, I realize you were not testing RDS but managing Postgres on EC2 directly.

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Yes, I want to cover RDS with all of its specifics as the next step.

Thanks for highlighting this!