I think it's moot. For heavy users, the use case for ephemeral disk is better se...

cynicalkane on Nov 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: New EC2 Standard Instances and Price Reductions

I think it's moot. For heavy users, the use case for ephemeral disk is better served by their I/O instances. For light users, I think Amazon is betting that EBS is 'stable enough' by now. If you really don't like EBS, there's always the old instances, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB...