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		wmf on Feb 5, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Urs Hölzle on Google's first data center Isn't that how EC2 works?

mwcampbell on Feb 5, 2014 [–]

If I understand correctly, the problem is that persistent storage (either S3 or EBS) is network-attached, and you pay by the gigabyte and by the number of requests or IOPS.

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