The text discusses Aerospike's perspective on Amazon's introduction of EC2 High Memory instances designed for large in-memory databases, highlighting the demand for high-performance databases to handle real-time data needs. Aerospike appreciates Amazon's efforts to reduce management overhead and ensure predictable performance but emphasizes its own hybrid-memory architecture as an alternative to purely in-memory solutions, which can be costly due to DRAM expenses. The text mentions that real-time applications across various sectors can benefit from such high-performance databases, though challenges like data recovery after node failures remain. Aerospike suggests a flexible approach to storage, advocating for a diverse storage hierarchy that includes in-memory, hybrid-memory, and other storage options, to optimize latency tolerance and cost-efficiency. The company sees Amazon's initiative as a partial step in evolving digital data architectures, aligning with efforts to bring data closer to applications, a principle shared by both Aerospike and Edge Computing.