At 8k+ nodes, bare metal would likely be much cheaper. Why would you possibly want to host this on EC2?! Disclaimer, I've been at companies with thousands of s

At 8k+ nodes, bare metal would likely be much cheaper. Why would you possibly want to host this on EC2?! Disclaimer, I've been at companies with thousands of servers for my past 3 jobs. I've never once used any "cloud" service other than Linode for my personal VPS and ganeti for the Oregon open source lab VM donated to the gnome foundation (I'm a sysadmin alum for gnome.org)