On Thursday 04 May 2017 14:47:54 John R Pierce wrote: > On 5/4/2017 2:28 PM, Alan Hodgson wrote: > > On Thursday 04 May 2017 14:21:00 John R Pierce wrote: > >> or EBS, and I've heard from more than a few people that EBS can be > >> something of a sand trap. > > > > Sorry for following up off-topic, but EBS has actually improved > > considerably in the last few years. You can get guaranteed (and very > > high) IOPS on SSD storage, and many instance types come with high-speed > > throughput to EBS. It's much much better for databases than it was 5 > > years ago. > > has it become more stable when Amazon has their occasional major hiccups?
No ... when they have a major problem it generally cascades across the region, and several outages have hit EBS in particular. In us-east-1, at least. Other regions seem more reliable. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
