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Just out of curiosity, why would one choose AWS over Digital Ocean? Isn't DO considerably cheaper?
DO's "internal" networking/security group support is still immature. I use DO for personal stuff, but at work we use AWS. Just never EBS. Ever.
I would be so happy if Heroku passed along these price cuts to their customers, but based on past AWS price cuts, I'm not holding my breath.
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DO's "internal" networking/security group support is still immature. I use DO for personal stuff, but at work we use AWS. Just never EBS. Ever.
What's wrong with EBS? And for what usage?
The performance of EBS is pretty bad, and getting decent performance is expensive. Having said that, if your application runs in memory and disk usage is infrequent then it is probably fine to use EBS. EBS is also much more expensive than the instance storage, but it is also durable unlike instance storage.
On the whole, "never ever EBS" is too strong language making it incorrect. As usual, it depends.
wonder if there would be price battle on bandwidth.
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I see that the prices on the M3 instances dropped a bit more than the prices on the M1 instances did, so they are encouraging us customers even more to move from the older HHD based instances to the newer, faster SSD based instances.
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What's wrong with EBS? And for what usage?
Most of AWS's major outages have been related to EBS. Although outages can happen to any hosting provider, and I am sure they have fixed the previous issues. So EBS should get more stable over time and it is already quite stable. The performance of EBS is pretty bad, and getting decent performance is expensive. Having said that, if your application runs in memory and disk usage is infrequent then it is probably fine…