> That implies a 40gb NIC It may imply that but only outright requires 40Gb/s total, which is provided by the "4-port 10GBase-T Ethernet SIOM (Intel® X550 cont

> That implies a 40gb NIC It may imply that but only outright requires 40Gb/s total, which is provided by the "4-port 10GBase-T Ethernet SIOM (Intel® X550 controller)" of a SuperServer 7089P-TR4T. The EBS bandwidth can be elided entirely by using local storage instead. Local storage bandwidth can be much cheaper than ethernet, especially considering how many NVMe ports are already included. As 10GE is maybe $200/port (including SFPs), at scale, network cost doesn't "move the needle" on a $400k server.