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http://biodivertido.blogspot.com/2009/11/amazon-ebs-raid-0-postgis-build.html

EC2’s dirty secret

Javier’s post was a great tutorial on building out a PostGIS database on Amazon EC2. We all know EC2, but it does have it’s drawbacks and they are mainly related to disk IO. When using EC2 & EBS with large datasets you can easily run into IO bottlenecks. Individually these are not such a big deal, but when you are conducting global analyses poor disk IO on EC2 & EBS can quickly become a problem.

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