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 p

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).