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⚡ Introducing PlanetScale Metal ⚡ - Blazing fast NVMe drives - Unlimited IOPS - Drastic reductions in latency - And best price:performance ratio of any database available in AWS or GCP

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

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.

NVMe changes everything. I/O latency is lower now because SSDs don’t need to seek and because the interconnects have gotten faster. Throughput is higher because the interconnects have higher bandwidth.

And that’s really the magic behind PlanetScale Metal: Hardware is really good now. The rest is PlanetScale doing everything it takes to let that hardware shine while upholding immaculate reliability. Read more about why we built it and how it works: pscale.link/why-metal