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EC2's u-24tb1.metal is 224/448 cores/hyperthreads and 24TB RAM ;) https://aws.amazon.com/sap/instance-types/ https://aws.amazon.com/sap/instance-types/

• wiredfool 6y ago
  And nearly 2 million for a 3 year reserved instance.
  • atonse 6y ago
    This reminded me of a story from 15 years ago. I once worked for a company that was writing a proposal for a US Homeland Security IT system. This was 2006. I wasn't involved in it but my office-mate was. He randomly turned his chair around and said "hey, can you go on Dell.com and see if you can build the most expensive server imaginable" – so I did and I ended up at around $350k. I don't remember what it was, but at the time the stats just felt absolutely obscene. I do remember that, at that scale we were buying a closet, not just one box. And I told him the price, and he said, "They have set aside $20 million for server hardware, and what you configured is way way overkill for what they think they need" – so we were both so damn perplexed because, at least from what he told me, this didn't need that much. And it wasn't one of those classified projects where they couldn't tell you what it was for. It was a pretty boring line of business type thing (like HR or building access control or something). Maybe that's probably more a story of just how much cash was being poured into that agency during the years after 9/11.
    • jarym 6y ago
      They got to the end of their financial year and had $$$ left to spend... happens all the time.
      • atonse 6y ago
        But this was for an RFP. they would’ve had to continue to obligate that money likely for years to come.