> Ah, this brings back memories. Reddit was one of the very first users of EBS back in 2008. I thought I was so clever when I figured out that I could get more IOPS if I build a software raid out of five EBS volumes.
Hey! We also did that! It turned out, that eventually you hit the network bandwidth limit. I think, the performance topped out at around 160 megabytes per second for most of the instance types back then.
Hey! We also did that! It turned out, that eventually you hit the network bandwidth limit. I think, the performance topped out at around 160 megabytes per second for most of the instance types back then.