Besides the PR-approved statements here and there that don't add much to the meat of the topic, one should admire AWS' ability to innovate and add new features and services at this incredible pace.<p>Right now, in 2019, I'd say that most IT organizations can benefit from "some" use of AWS, at least, and that for certain use cases going close to 100% on AWS might also be beneficial, when you take into account the "human" costs.<p>The amount of R&D and investments that AWS does makes their products more and more compelling, comparatively to other products/services in the market (e.g. private servers).<p>I just wish that there would be less cool-aid drinking and more practical considerations when comparing prices between public and private cloud. I guess it will come over time.<p>(disclaimer: worked at AWS from 2008 to 2014).
Jeff - Looks like there are some mistakes here <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/" rel="nofollow">https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/</a><p>i3en is showing "EBS only" under "Instance Storage"
I3en drives have lower peak IOPS compared to the ones on I3 but storage latency is 30-50% lower on I3en. Also, it is 50% cheaper than I3 on per GB basis.
Jeff - are the disks slower (but bigger) than the i3 versions?<p>It looks like the IOPS and throughput are lower at the top end (looking at the two release pages).