You can actually create multiple volumes and then stripe them together so you should be able to get above 16TB with a bit of work. The reason we focus on SSD e

You can actually create multiple volumes and then stripe them together so you should be able to get above 16TB with a bit of work. The reason we focus on SSD exclusively for most of our services is that there are obvious performance benefits and as we look into the future the prevalence of spinning disk will continue to decrease over time. That being said, if we are only providing SSD there are going to be customer use cases where it's not going to make sense, but that's also part of looking into the future. So you should be able to create a larger striped volume to run through your batch processing and then depending on how you plan to access that data afterwards you can ship that off to an object store if it's going to be accessed infrequently.