True, but the m1.small had instance storage as an option. Since there is no m3.small and EBS is out of the question, it looks like I'll be moving my m1.smalls to m3.mediums.
Why is EBS out of the question? Do you have an horror story to share? :)
I agree there are some specific uses cases ideally suited for ephemeral storage. But in most cases EBS gives you quicker provisioning times, snapshotting and of course persistance.
In the past, performance and reliability sucked but AFAIK this is not an issue anymore, especially with the new General Purpose (SSD backed) EBS volumes.
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True, but the m1.small had instance storage as an option. Since there is no m3.small and EBS is out of the question, it looks like I'll be moving my m1.smalls to m3.mediums.
Why is EBS out of the question? Do you have an horror story to share? :)
I agree there are some specific uses cases ideally suited for ephemeral storage. But in most cases EBS gives you quicker provisioning times, snapshotting and of course persistance. In the past, performance and reliability sucked but AFAIK this is not an issue anymore, especially with the new General Purpose (SSD backed) EBS volumes.