Amazon EBS gp3
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An AWS block storage volume type with provisioned baseline performance.
Why it's here
Placed in Assess: 1 article(s) of evidence from 1 source(s), led by research-stage coverage, with 1 in the last 30 days. Confidence 24%. Low accumulated evidence, so it defaults conservatively pending more signal.
Evidence (1)
- 6Hacker News·10/12/2026researchPostgres Performance Tied to Storage, Not the Database Itself
A POSETTE 2026 talk argues that many PostgreSQL scaling problems—such as slow ingestion, unstable P95 reads, vacuum lag, checkpoint spikes, and replication delay—often stem from storage bottlenecks. The benchmark compared the same large workload on gp3 EBS and local NVMe, highlighting much lower latency and overhead on local NVMe and proposing production patterns for running Postgres on it.