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AWS is launching instances from 4 to 16TB of memory in the coming year: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-in-memory-processing-update-instances-with-4-to-16

by luhn 9y ago

AWS is launching instances from 4 to 16TB of memory in the coming year: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-in-memory-processing-update-instances-with-4-to-16-tb-of-memory-scale-out-sap-hana-to-34-tb/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-in-memory-processing-up... Even terabytes of data isn't "big" anymore.

TallGuyShort 9y ago
Computers have always grown over time. So have data set sizes.
skj 9y ago
In the era of "big data", TB was never considered big.
- metaphorm 9y ago
  it's big enough that your conventional RDBMS and app server stack starts to struggle with it
dajohnson89 9y ago
As someone who runs 3x244GB AWS EC2 instances, this stuff is expensive. Before throwing everything into a hi-mem cloud setup, it's worthwhile to pause and think if it's possible/worthwhile to find an alternative approach.