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by jedberg 4057 days ago
Hey man, awesome writeup. I have a suggestion for you: try and architect off those EBS volumes -- as you unfortunately learned the hard way, they just aren't that consistent. DynamoDB is a good option, or adding some redundancy so that you can just use the ephemeral disk would be even better (and probably cost neutral compared to the "consistent" I/O EBS volumes).

Happy to help if you'd like.
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cperciva 4057 days ago
try and architect off those EBS volumes

Yeah, that has been a work in progress for a long time. FWIW, I started using piops volumes when they were the only SSD option available -- they beat the crap out of spinning ephemeral disks.

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jedberg 4057 days ago
> when they were the only SSD option available -- they beat the crap out of spinning ephemeral disks.

No doubt!

What sort of stateful storage are you using on those EBS volumes?

If you're doing key/value, you might want to check out https://github.com/Netflix/dynomite

It turns redis into a dynamo-like key value store that might bootstrap your transition.

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