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x1.16xlarge is 64 threads (174.5 ECU), 1 TB RAM, 2 TB SSD, for $6.669 per Hour. x1.32xlarge is double in every respect. i3.16xlarge is 64 threads (200 ECU)

by phonon 9y ago

x1.16xlarge is 64 threads (174.5 ECU), 1 TB RAM, 2 TB SSD, for $6.669 per Hour. x1.32xlarge is double in every respect. i3.16xlarge is 64 threads (200 ECU), 488 GB RAM, 15 TB SSD, $4.992 per hour. Seems competitive.

travem 9y ago
It's competitive if you don't actually need the 28.8TB NVMe SSD. If you actually need that much storage capacity and speed you are looking at provisioning 2 i3.16xlarge's and hoping your application can be distributed across multiple instances.
- phonon 9y ago
  Sure, and if you need 1 or 2 TB of RAM, Oracle won't be able to help, and that's a much harder parameter to work around... Anyway, my point was that it didn't, IMHO, "easily mop the floor with AWS on price/performance ratio".
eloff 9y ago
On RAM, yes. On random IOPS and throughput to the 28.8TB NVMe storage - no comparison.
- phonon 9y ago
  Do you have some numbers? According to here [1] an i3.16xlarge will get you "up to to 3.3 million random IOPS at a 4 KB block size and up to 16 GB/second of disk throughput. " What does Oracle claim? I see here they say 1 million IOPS.[2] [1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-instance-type-update-t2-r4-f1-elastic-gpus-i3-c5/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/ec2-instance-type-update-t2... [2] http://www.biwasummit.org/biwa/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/844677-CloudCookbookv3.pdf http://www.biwasummit.org/biwa/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/84...