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

There's a thread in the EC2 forums where this is discussed:

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=26118&start=0&tstart=0

The last couple of posts from AWS folk make the point that 8MB/sec is about all you could expect from any single disk given that kind of random I/O load.