New High I/O EC2 Instance Type - hi1.4xlarge - 2 TB of SSD-Backed Storage
What are good use-cases for <i>on-demand</i> high I/O servers?<p>At $3.10/hr, these instances work out to $2k/mo.
There are probably many more cost-effective options if you want a 2TB SSD server.<p>Since the benefit of using EC2 is that you can provision instances elastically, what are the sorts of scenarios in which one needs to provision high I/O servers elastically?<p>[edit: A few minutes of Googling, and I can't find any dedicated servers with 2 TB of SSD.]