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Using a SSD Cache in Front of EBS Boosted Throughput by 50%, for Free
Using EBS has lots of advantages--reliability, snapshotting, resizing--but overcoming the performance problems by using Provisioned IOPS is expensive. Swrve, an integrated marketing and A/B testing and optimization platform for mobile apps, did something clever. They are using the c3.xlarge EC2 instances, that have two 40GB SSD devices per