Amazon Web Services is going retro to help companies deal with big data workloads. The cloud provider announced Tuesday it’s launching two new volume types for its Elastic Block Store service that are powered by traditional, spinning disk hard drives.
The new Throughput-Optimized HDD and Cold HDD EBS volume types let companies store files cheaply in a way that’s still useful for big data workloads like MapReduce and Kafka. the Throughput-Optimized service is aimed at frequent use cases, while the Cold HDD service is built for those same uses, but for applications that reference the items stored less frequently.
