When you create an EBS volume from a snapshot, the content is streamed in from S3 on a pull-through basis. You can enable FSR which creates the EBS volume with all the data up front, but it is an extra cost option.
Yeah, this is exactly my point. Despite provisioning (and paying for) io1 ssd’s it doesn’t matter because you’re still pulling through on demand over a network connection to access it.
It was faster to just not do any of this. At my current job we pay $200/mo for a single bare metal server, and our CI is about 50% quicker than it was for 20% of the price.
