We have been hosting kafka brokers in Amazon EC2 and we are using EBS
disk.  But periodically we were hit by long I/O wait time on EBS in some
Availability Zones.

We are thinking to change the instance types to a local HDD or local SSD.
HDD is cheaper and bigger and seems quite fit for the Kafka use case which
is mostly sequential read/write, but some early experiments show the HDD
cannot catch up with the message producing speed since there are many
topic/partitions on the broker which actually makes the disk I/O more
randomly accessed.

How are people's experience of choosing disk types on Amazon?

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