# Aurora I/O

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**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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That is a good question. I’m not sure why that decision was made in retrospect. I assume the cost would be cheaper for standard PostgreSQL, but also trying to determine if there is a setup issue causing more I/O requests than there should be.

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