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An EC2 I3 has up to 3.3 million IOPS. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/02/now-available-amazon-ec2-i3-instances-next-generation-storage-optimize

• bkeroack 9y ago
  "Up to". Also we don't know how many underlying SSD devices there are, which is my point. This is a single drive that supports radically more sustained random IOPS than we've ever seen, at a very low price point compared to comparable solutions.
  • phonon 9y ago
    That's with eight 1.9 TB devices. You can scale it down, of course. Anyway, the point is you do not need to spend anywhere near $32,500/m to get that kind of performance from AWS. (As long as you don't mind using non-EBS storage.) In this case, an i3.16xlarge is $27,856 per YEAR (if paid upfront).