IO Devices and Latency(planetscale.com)
390 points by milar | 139 comments
PlanetScale engineering blog post by Benjamin Dicken explaining IO devices and latency, comparing local NVMe with network-attached storage like AWS EBS.
#aws-ebs on Hacker News
2 stories tagged aws-ebs, newest first.
Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS(allthingsdistributed.com)
350 points by riv991 | 79 comments
A guest post on Werner Vogels' All Things Distributed blog by Marc Olson recounting the evolution of AWS Elastic Block Store and lessons learned.