> the biggest one is db.r5.24xlarge with 48 cores and 768 gb ram. I imagine that can take you quite a long way--perhaps even into millions of users territory T

> the biggest one is db.r5.24xlarge with 48 cores and 768 gb ram. I imagine that can take you quite a long way--perhaps even into millions of users territory That will run Stackoverflow's db by itself for reference, along with sensible caching (they're very read-heavy and cache like crazy). Here's their hardware for their SQL server for 2016: 2 Dell R720xd Servers featuring: Dual E5-2697v2 Processors (12 cores @2.7–3.5GHz each), 384 GB of RAM (24x 16 GB DIMMs), 1x Intel P3608 4 TB NVMe PCIe SSD (RAID 0, 2 controllers per card), 24x Intel 710 200 GB SATA SSDs (RAID 10), Dual 10 Gbps network (Intel X540/I350 NDC). https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-hardware-2016-edition/ https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-ha...