monkeyrat8

No. DO doesn't provide a remote block storage solution, only local disks where your data is much more likely to be lost if the machine fails and also much slower to back up and awkward to manage. Local SSD storage has been around for years and hardly represents innovation. The only thing DO did was slice local SSD drives into tiny slivers for customers which means you're sharing a drive with many other customers on the same box, some of which will be furiously scrubbing their disks when they destroy the droplet.

It looks like 3 IOPS per GB guaranteed, even when throttled, and much higher when bursting. That's still 3000 IOPS (3 X 1000) worst case for a 1TB volume.

I wonder what effect SSD EBS will have on boot times.