AWS PIOPS SSD backed

The question of what the technology backing EBS Provisioned IOPS volumes comes up often.  PIOPS volumes are backed by Solid-State Drives (SSDs), Provisioned IOPS volumes support up to 30 IOPS per GB which enables you to provision 4000 IOPS on a volume as small as 134 GB. 

More details here:
https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/details/

AWS Storage Tiering for Enterprise Workloads

This a replay of the AWS reInvent session that covers storage tiering options for running Oracle Enterprise workloads such as Oracle Databases on AWS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Il80bhQCI

Slides:
http://www.slideshare.net/tomlaszewski/aws-storage-tiering-for-enterprise-workloads

AWS EBS PIOPS increased to 4K

This announcement will provide additional throughput for high transaction volume Oracle databases running on EC2:

• Jeff Barr's Blog post: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/05/provision-up-to-4k-iops-per-ebs-volume.html
• What's new announcement: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/05/07/announcing-4000-iops-per-piops-volume-and-marketplace-support/
• EBS detail page: http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/
• AWS Marketplace Provisioned IOPS detail page: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/piops
• EBS Provisioned IOPS Documentation: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AmazonEBS.html