SSDs Boost Instagram's Speed on Amazon EC2 | CIOSSDs Boost Instagram's Speed on Amazon EC2 The solid-state drives help Instagram deliver on its customers' demands for speed, a co-founder said Instagram can drive data to its computing systems on Amazon.com's EC2 service 20 times as fast with solid-state drives, a co-founder of the photo-sharing service said on Thursday at the GigaOm Mobilize conference in San Francisco. Rather than access data f
