Amazon Web Services(AWS)is offering solid-state disks(SSDs)in the cloud to support low-latency applications.
The cloud service is providing SSDs capable of delivering in excess of 120,000 read input/output operations per second(IOps)and more than 80,000 write IOps,according to Amazon.
The company said the SSD-based,high I/O instance type would suit applications such as transaction processing,time series analysis,and mobile and streaming applications that require low-latency access to storage systems that can deliver tens of thousands of IOps.
"These new instances are a more efficient and cost-effective way to run high I/O applications,and are another example of our roadmap being shaped by our customers–this has been a top request from customers over the past few months,"said Peter De Santis,vice-president of Amazon EC2.
Streaming TV service Netflix is looking to move to the new service."The ability to leverage SSD-backed instances which provide tens of thousands of IOps will significantly increase the performance of our clusters and overall service capability,"said Adrian Cockcroft,director of architecture at Netflix.
