NVMe SSDs are seeing rapid adoption in the cloud, enterprise data centers, and edge computing for data-intensive applications such as relational databases and NoSQL environments. However, the data in these SSDs is temporary and will persist only during the lifetime of their associated virtual machine instances.Â
NVMe SSD storage is ephemeral for all of the major cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. If customers want to protect data in these SSDs, they have to opt for Elastic Block Storage in AWS or equivalent persistent disk options in Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The problem is that these options often require sacrificing performance in exchange for data protection and availability.
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