30 engineers on Hacker News describe using Amazon EBS first-hand: 3 endorse it, 12 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“At the time each volume had very inconsistent performance, so I would launch seven or eight”
regret · production · jedberg · 2024-08-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“EBS costs were 10x+ the cost for same perfomance CEPH cluster on the node disks. Eventually we switched to our own racks and cut it almost in ten again.”
regret · production · guywhocodes · 2024-01-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“having to keep everything on NVMe or EBS was astoundingly expensive”
regret · production · lizthegrey · 2021-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“even with EBS, at scale we end up with something like 20 unrecoverable volume failures per year”
mixed · production · paulfurtado · 2021-10-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Sure, we've hit our share of problems over the years, but storage itself is solid.”
endorse · production · paulfurtado · 2020-08-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The only kind of disk available on RDS is EBS. EBS is slow compared to the NVMe the i3s provide.”
regret · production · malisper · 2018-09-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The pricing is nutty and we had similar issues”
regret · production · dfsegoat · 2016-09-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Historically running on ebs was a great way to ensure application downtime.”
regret · production · helper · 2015-01-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run everysecond and very frequently see "Asynchronous AOF fsync is taking too long" because EBS can't keep up.”
regret · production · anveo · 2013-04-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Typical pain points are lack of flexibility in ELBs and variable performance on EBS - nothing that can't be worked around.”
regret · production · mryan · 2013-01-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Hardly an issue for EBS that way.”
endorse · production · 1SaltwaterC · 2012-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“EBS has had too many cascading failures to be trustworthy for our production systems.”
regret · production · helper · 2012-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use 4 EBS drive RAID-0 drives for storage which have had problems in the past due to the outages that EBS sometimes has.”
regret · production · explodingbarrel · 2012-06-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We originally tried fancy EBS setup to speed it up and make it persistant. In the end we ditched all that and went ephemeral.”
regret · production · joevandyk · 2011-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've lost all bar one EBS snapshot. Don't think I can trust them anymore”
regret · production · pdaddyo · 2011-08-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“You might consider Amazon Web Services and their EBS snapshotting offerings. We run our Web infrastructure off an NFS cluster which has all storage on an EBS volume.”
endorse · production · blantonl · 2011-05-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We aren't as write oriented so we can live with some of the limitations of EBS, but we've even considered moving our master MySQL and Mongo servers to ephemeral storage.”
mixed · production · blantonl · 2011-04-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've replaced our $10k/month Aurora instances with a $200/month Elastic Block Storage (EBS) volume.”
neutral · production · b112 · 2024-04-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our original version of that system used vanilla BuildKit + EBS volumes + orchestration”
neutral · production · jacobwg · 2024-04-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to running Clickhouse on EKS with EBS volumes for storage.”
neutral · production · ianburrell · 2024-02-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The devs sometimes don't like that the default EBS volume is a little small”
neutral · production · ranger207 · 2023-08-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use GP3 for our hosted service, and I did test on GP3 as well with identical settings as GP2”
neutral · production · wuputah · 2022-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to EBS-based instances after this”
neutral · production · lflux · 2019-10-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“IOPS are because they all use gp2 EBS volumes”
neutral · production · DasIch · 2018-12-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I experimented with using a chain of systemd units to handle the unlocking and mounting of an encrypted EBS volume.”
neutral · personal · CaliforniaKarl · 2018-09-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the ami is set to not delete the volume. I use a cloudwatch event to detect this”
neutral · production · jpetersonmn · 2017-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run our one stack that requires a lot of storage on EC2 and use EBS”
neutral · production · sstrudeau · 2013-04-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've also completely abandoned EBS in favor of ephemeral storage except in two places”
neutral · production · blantonl · 2012-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use mdadm to run RAID across multiple EBSes.”
neutral · production · jwilliams · 2012-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We chose to back MongoDB with EBS because that was the only reasonable way to get base backups (via snapshots) of the database.”
neutral · production · mitchellh · 2012-04-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?