Amazon EC2 Sql Performance

Question

I\'m considering using Amazon\'s EC2 with a windows instance & SQL. I\'ve seen some criticism of the perf of the SQL instances here. I\'m wondering if any SOers have and fir

Answer 1

Keep in mind that EC2 has a performance hit on the first write to a block on the ephemeral store, and the first access to EBS. As such, benchmarks which fail to take this into account may not be representative of performance on a long-running system.