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A bit under $35,000 for the year.

zetazzed 10y ago
Under $35k per year AFTER you've paid the $98k up-front cost for a reserved instance. The blog post shows pricing for reserved instances. Hourly price is $13.338 without up-front payment. Expensive, but still nice to have this available as an option for niche scenarios that need all that RAM.
- toomuchtodo 10y ago
  I'd love to see someone benchmark how fast you can get ~2TB of data into that instance from S3, process it, get the results back into S3, and power down. Big data version of Cannonball Run.
  - mentat 10y ago
    Or you could just use BigQuery =).
    - toomuchtodo 10y ago
      What fun would that be :)
dvirsky 10y ago
IIRC that's not a whole lot more than i2.8xl, which has 1/8 of the RAM. But anyway, most likely this will probably be used for on demand "Small Data" type jobs that will benefit from running on a single machine.
Rezo 10y ago
$9.6K/mo without a reservation, but a hefty 70% off with a 3-year reserved instance purchase. It's actually good value, it's 8x the RAM of the nearest memory optimized instance (R3.8XLarge) at just 5x the price. If you have a whole bunch of memory optimized instances, this can allow you to simplify and consolidate and still save you money. Still, don't put all your eggs in one virtual basket.
helper 10y ago
If you paid hourly (instead of using a reserved instance) it costs $116840.88 per year (13.338 per hour * 24 * 365). A 1 year reservation + hourly charges for a year is $67197.96 (all up front).
- matt4077 10y ago
  So this thing is worth about three humans in the western world :( (not that I don't understand that this could be said of many things, might actually be true in economic terms etc. It just never occured to me with other heavy machinery).
  - nitrogen 10y ago
    It's always fun when making devops forecasts to plot the date when the servers will be paid more than you due to anticipated growth.
- kabdib 10y ago
  You can buy a server from Dell with 1.5 TB of RAM and four beefy processors (80 cores) for about $60K. You can power and cool it for a year for maybe $4K. Every time I look at AWS, it just doesn't make sense from a financial standpoint (even after you add another machine for redundancy, and remote hands -- you're ahead after 12 months).
  - helper 10y ago
    I'm sure there are companies that will run this instance type 24/7 for years. But you can also spin one up for a short period of time, use it to do things you would normally need to do across a bunch of machines and then tear it down. Having this type of instance available via an API call is within seconds is really cool.
snewman 10y ago
Yes, but only if you pay for three years up front. Spelling out all the options: * $117K / year on-demand * 81K / year for one-year commitment, nothing up front * 69K / year for one-year commitment, $34,285 up front * 67K / year for one-year commitment, $67,199 up front * 35K / year for three-year commitment, $52,166 up front * 33K / year for three-year commitment, $98,072 up front All these prices are total, e.g. for the last option, you pay $98,072 up front and then nothing more, which divides out to about $33K / year over the three years. Plus, eventually, the spot market, and of course you can run save money with on-demand if you only need the instance occasionally.
- hartator 10y ago
  AWS pricing is a bit ridiculous. $100,000 can buy some much hardware even while taking account of the additional costs like electricity and hardware failures.
  - blowski 10y ago
    And the staff costs of good sysadmins, and the reliable network, and everything else that comes with AWS? For some use cases, the pricing of AWS makes sense.
    - Chronic51 10y ago
      For most personal and business use cases, it does not make sense.
    - throwaway2016a 10y ago
      I tend to agree with you on AWS. I swear by it. But in this case I would probably go at it this way... How many hours can I run the machine before it costs more than building one? Probably a month? (random guess) Will I be running it longer than that? If yes, build the machine, if no, just rent it from AWS. I can't even imagine a scenario where I run this 24 hours a day 365 that I wouldn't build out a Hadoop cluster or similar for.
bluedino 10y ago
An R930 on Dell's site configures out to double that. And that doesn't include power/bandwidth. I'm sure you would also get a hefty discount if you were a customer who regularly buys servers that cost that much.
- tracker1 10y ago
  Thanks for looking that up... I was going to say, I'd be surprised if these servers weren't costing Amazon over $70K to begin with.
daigoba66 10y ago
The use cases for this class of machines, I think: spin up, do work for a few minutes/hours/whatever, then spin down. They're far from running 24/7 which _can_ make it more economical than buying dedicated hardware which might sit idle.
dajonker 10y ago
The cost of those machines are tiny compared to the SAP HANA licenses you'll need for your "Enterprise-Scale SAP Workloads" mentioned in the blog.

Under $35k per year AFTER you've paid the $98k up-front cost for a reserved instance. The blog post shows pricing for reserved instances. Hourly price is $13.338 without up-front payment. Expensive, but still nice to have this available as an option for niche scenarios that need all that RAM.

toomuchtodo 10y ago
I'd love to see someone benchmark how fast you can get ~2TB of data into that instance from S3, process it, get the results back into S3, and power down. Big data version of Cannonball Run.
- mentat 10y ago
  Or you could just use BigQuery =).
  - toomuchtodo 10y ago
    What fun would that be :)

dvirsky 10y ago

IIRC that's not a whole lot more than i2.8xl, which has 1/8 of the RAM. But anyway, most likely this will probably be used for on demand "Small Data" type jobs that will benefit from running on a single machine.

Rezo 10y ago

$9.6K/mo without a reservation, but a hefty 70% off with a 3-year reserved instance purchase. It's actually good value, it's 8x the RAM of the nearest memory optimized instance (R3.8XLarge) at just 5x the price. If you have a whole bunch of memory optimized instances, this can allow you to simplify and consolidate and still save you money. Still, don't put all your eggs in one virtual basket.

helper 10y ago

If you paid hourly (instead of using a reserved instance) it costs $116840.88 per year (13.338 per hour * 24 * 365). A 1 year reservation + hourly charges for a year is $67197.96 (all up front).

matt4077 10y ago
So this thing is worth about three humans in the western world :( (not that I don't understand that this could be said of many things, might actually be true in economic terms etc. It just never occured to me with other heavy machinery).
- nitrogen 10y ago
  It's always fun when making devops forecasts to plot the date when the servers will be paid more than you due to anticipated growth.
kabdib 10y ago
You can buy a server from Dell with 1.5 TB of RAM and four beefy processors (80 cores) for about $60K. You can power and cool it for a year for maybe $4K. Every time I look at AWS, it just doesn't make sense from a financial standpoint (even after you add another machine for redundancy, and remote hands -- you're ahead after 12 months).
- helper 10y ago
  I'm sure there are companies that will run this instance type 24/7 for years. But you can also spin one up for a short period of time, use it to do things you would normally need to do across a bunch of machines and then tear it down. Having this type of instance available via an API call is within seconds is really cool.

snewman 10y ago

Yes, but only if you pay for three years up front. Spelling out all the options: * $117K / year on-demand * 81K / year for one-year commitment, nothing up front * 69K / year for one-year commitment, $34,285 up front * 67K / year for one-year commitment, $67,199 up front * 35K / year for three-year commitment, $52,166 up front * 33K / year for three-year commitment, $98,072 up front All these prices are total, e.g. for the last option, you pay $98,072 up front and then nothing more, which divides out to about $33K / year over the three years. Plus, eventually, the spot market, and of course you can run save money with on-demand if you only need the instance occasionally.

hartator 10y ago
AWS pricing is a bit ridiculous. $100,000 can buy some much hardware even while taking account of the additional costs like electricity and hardware failures.
- blowski 10y ago
  And the staff costs of good sysadmins, and the reliable network, and everything else that comes with AWS? For some use cases, the pricing of AWS makes sense.
  - Chronic51 10y ago
    For most personal and business use cases, it does not make sense.
  - throwaway2016a 10y ago
    I tend to agree with you on AWS. I swear by it. But in this case I would probably go at it this way... How many hours can I run the machine before it costs more than building one? Probably a month? (random guess) Will I be running it longer than that? If yes, build the machine, if no, just rent it from AWS. I can't even imagine a scenario where I run this 24 hours a day 365 that I wouldn't build out a Hadoop cluster or similar for.

bluedino 10y ago

An R930 on Dell's site configures out to double that. And that doesn't include power/bandwidth. I'm sure you would also get a hefty discount if you were a customer who regularly buys servers that cost that much.

tracker1 10y ago
Thanks for looking that up... I was going to say, I'd be surprised if these servers weren't costing Amazon over $70K to begin with.

daigoba66 10y ago

The use cases for this class of machines, I think: spin up, do work for a few minutes/hours/whatever, then spin down. They're far from running 24/7 which _can_ make it more economical than buying dedicated hardware which might sit idle.

dajonker 10y ago

The cost of those machines are tiny compared to the SAP HANA licenses you'll need for your "Enterprise-Scale SAP Workloads" mentioned in the blog.