What I Read: block storage, AWS

Andrew Fairless, Ph.D.

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Posted on 2026-02-03 :: Tags: cloud, memory, network, queue

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2024/08/continuous-reinvention-a-brief-history-of-block-storage-at-aws.html
Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS
Marc Olson
August 22, 2024
"...EBS is capable of delivering more IOPS to a single instance today than it could deliver to an entire Availability Zone (AZ) in the early years on top of HDDs."