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Why not bare metal on AWS? Going to DX is going to give you a conservative 10ms on your calls...

• darksaints 9y ago
  That might be a good intermediate option, but they still don't have instances with 4x24 cpu, or >488GB ram.
  • openasocket 9y ago
    Did you look at the x1 options? Up to 128 CPUs and 3,904GB of RAM on the x1e.32xlarge.
    • darksaints 9y ago
      Those aren't bare metal. And in terms of database scalability, I would jump for bare metal before beefier servers, due to the fact that the disk is local and you don't have to deal with EBS noisy neighbors.
      • openasocket 9y ago
        The x1e.32xlarge has 4TB of SSD in addition to dedicated EBS bandwidth.
        • saosebastiao 9y ago
          I haven't tried it, but IIRC that's only network bandwidth to the block store. Better than the alternative for sure, but I would assume disk access is still noisy unless you have a dedicated drive.
          • openasocket 9y ago
            True, but you do have 4TB dedicated SSD
          • welder 9y ago
            The max IOPS for provisioned EBS is less than 10% the max IOPS of dedicated hardware SSDs.
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