Yeah, these instance types look strong and it seems that Amazon is also innovating in the local storage space as well as I don't find many of the usual gotchas with SSDs there (long GC pauses, etc).
We may be moving to a future where cloud hardware stops being "just OK" and a low maintenance version of what you could build yourself, but actually offering unobtainable-by-mere-mortals hardware and firmware (we are already seeing this for e.g. with quantum computing options in the cloud and even arguably GPUs and ML accelerators).
We may be moving to a future where cloud hardware stops being "just OK" and a low maintenance version of what you could build yourself, but actually offering unobtainable-by-mere-mortals hardware and firmware (we are already seeing this for e.g. with quantum computing options in the cloud and even arguably GPUs and ML accelerators).