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by Icer5k 4383 days ago
All I have to say is "Wow". I just switched our boot drives in us-west-2 over, and our initialization time was cut in half (~7 minutes to ~3 minutes).

As someone who launches a lot of instances based on user demand, I'm very excited EC2 has finally addressed the glaring speed issues with EBS volumes. This brings boot times in line with the original GCE boot times, which were stellar.

Of course, time will tell if the new General Purpose volumes can hold up as more users come onto the system, but for now I'm impressed.