With all of Reddit's past problems with AWS and EBS (
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2339214,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2469838, ), I figured they would haved jumped to Google Compute Engine by now, which has much better IO all around (
http://gigaom.com/2013/03/15/by-the-numbers-how-google-compu...).