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		_ondq on April 6, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building a high performance SSD SAN, part 1 Every company that runs on AWS is dependent upon SAN (eg, EBS). I imagine it's similar for other cloud services. Just because you've never seen one or had to deal with one directly does not mean you're not dependent on one.

moe on April 6, 2015 [–]

Every company that runs on AWS is dependent upon SAN

I think the discussion was about running your own SAN, i.e. creating your own EBS.

As it happens EBS itself is not backed by a SAN either. According to the rumors it's implemented using either DRBD or GNBD.

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