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I'm wondering if you did (or anyone has done) any cost effectiveness on using SSD's rather than HD's. (Or maybe that's an order-of-magnitude too low to consider?)


Netflix has done such benchmarks [0]; TLDR: _their workload_ cut costs in half with hi1 instances.

[0] http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/benchmarking-high-perfor...


I can't imagine that SSDs would make any difference for web app servers. I am not familiar with app servers workload that uses a material amount of disk I/O.

That being said, if I built custom app servers, I'd use SSDs because the cost is small for a system that doesn't need much storage.




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