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jacobscott on June 17, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: New EBS volume type: General Purpose (SSD)

If we assume stability, in what circumstances would PIOPS or Magnetic volumes be preferable to General Purpose?

For example, workloads that use an average of < ~.4 IOP per GB per second, might save money using Magnetic.

mtanski on June 17, 2014 [–]

Storing a lot of "colder" data but where you might want to be able to have better then S3 speed of transfer.

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