That is correct. NVMe-backed storage, 10 GigE-backed network IO, and 16-core CPU gets you pretty far nowadays for ~$5K USD, and RAM starts to be the limiting f

That is correct. NVMe-backed storage, 10 GigE-backed network IO, and 16-core CPU gets you pretty far nowadays for ~$5K USD, and RAM starts to be the limiting factor. Disk IO and network IO can be saturated pretty easily, and that kind of work usually involves a lot of RAM so here we are.