# Aurora I/O

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/aurora-i-o/251937>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** hosting\
**Created:** [January 16, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/aurora-i-o/251937 "2023-01-16T16:01:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![pqMMA](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pqmma/32/176332_2.png) [@pqMMA](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pqMMA)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2023, 4:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/aurora-i-o/251937/1 "2023-01-16T16:01:45Z")

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I am curious if anyone else has Discourse running on AWS through an EC2 instance and RDS setup?

We have run into an issue where the amount of I/O requests is through the roof and creating significant cost. We are currently processing 5.5 billion monthly I/O requests, which seems like a lot for a forum of maybe a 1,000 active users.

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