Amazon’s pricing is structured to discourage IOPs and encourage RAM fwiw
brightball
andre1sk
It’s hard to discourage IOPS for an ACID DB as for an average setup you will do fsync for each transaction.
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brightball
It’s mostly for read sake. Lack of ram on read heavy loads, queries that result in huge temp tables, etc.
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ook
New serious player in the game: https://www.online.net/en/ods
online.com (Free SAS/ Illiad) well known by french people, not tested yet, but the pricing is very clear and their products are often very nice.
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