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They already do, although it is quite new. The AWS provisioned IOPS layer ("pIOPS") is SSD-backed, and can be used for RDS:

http://aws.amazon.com/rds/#PIOPS

There isn't currently an easy way to migrate to pIOPS from traditional RDS, but the performance is fantastic and works as advertised.



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