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With Amazon announcing new High I/O 2TB SSD instances the age of SSD has almost arrived. I say almost because the $27K a year price tag for the hi1.4xlarge on demand instance type is outside the budget of many. Yet even at the full on demand rate the price per IOP for the high IO instance is attractive: 27 cents ($27K/100K IOPS) per vs $1.25 for disk. With the obvious benefits of giant SSD machines combined with 10 Gbps networking, it’s interesting to consider: what architecture decisions might you make differently in the future?
More Headroom for Vertical Scaling Simplifies Everything
The beauty of higher hardware performance is it shifts effort away from the programmer which allows developers to focus on the business of business, minimizing trickeration. This has always been the allure of vertical scaling and is well realized by SSDs through a combination of high throughput, low latencies, and just as important, high densities.
We have a few early examples showing the performance punch of the new High IO instance:
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