Generally a fan of your posts, but this one was very heavy on marketing buzzology ("cloud scale"). I can't tell if there was a genuine use case for designing a proprietary SSD, or if it were some pet project. Is "75% lower latency variability" because the first gen SSD was a CS101 project, or because AWS have developed some material edge over what others (with much wider scope) in the industry have been doing for years? I can't tell.
I doubt that other companies' supposedly "wider scope" actually exists or gives them advantages. Both Amazon and Google make their own SSDs and have the largest computer installations in the known universe. The fact that Samsung makes a lot of SSDs for laptops may not give them wider scope at all.
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Generally a fan of your posts, but this one was very heavy on marketing buzzology ("cloud scale"). I can't tell if there was a genuine use case for designing a proprietary SSD, or if it were some pet project. Is "75% lower latency variability" because the first gen SSD was a CS101 project, or because AWS have developed some material edge over what others (with much wider scope) in the industry have been doing for years? I can't tell.
I can't see a reason to buy or use this product.
I doubt that other companies' supposedly "wider scope" actually exists or gives them advantages. Both Amazon and Google make their own SSDs and have the largest computer installations in the known universe. The fact that Samsung makes a lot of SSDs for laptops may not give them wider scope at all.