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.