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Block, Intercom, Depot, and more have been running Metal in production for months and have recognized both performance gains and cost savings. See their stories here: Block - pscale.link/bl Depot - pscale.link/dep Intercom - pscale.link/int

Why Metal? Network-attached storage isn’t ideal for databases. Separating storage and compute creates inherent problems, most notably high and widely variable latency as well as lower throughput and higher costs.

Writes to network-attached volumes pass through a NIC, network gear, and another machine before landing on a hard drive. No amount of engineering from the cloud providers can mask the physical reality that network-attached storage is far away.