Amazon Acquires Blazing Fast E8 Storage Technology

The E8 storage technology architecture is the first to break completely with the storage architectures built round mechanical devices. The underlying architecture exploits native NVMe flash drives over a high performance network fabric in a uniquely scalable way. It maps well into the separation of compute and storage of hyper-converged systems, which underlies cloud providers in general and the Amazon IaaS architecture in particular. AWS can integrate the E8 storage architecture and network to provide a highly performant and scalable compute service second to none.

The fundamental bottleneck for modern real-time application performance is storage speed. Ultra fast storage will enhance AWS database sales. It will also support AWS enterprise and SaaS customers who need to develop modern systems of record combined with Artificial Intelligence (AI) inference code and real-time analytics. These may be applications using AWS resources, or hybrid cloud applications moving code to where the data is located. The data maybe in remote AWS “true hybrid storage” devices such as Outposts, or in other “buckets” in the Wikibon Hybrid Cloud Taxonomy. These application types and other high data density applications require raw IO performance latency measured in the very low microseconds.