Any 64-bit MySQL will do fine with big memory. It is with > 16 cores that modern MySQL suffers from concurrency problems with mutex contention. These AMZN big

Any 64-bit MySQL will do fine with big memory. It is with > 16 cores that modern MySQL suffers from concurrency problems with mutex contention. These AMZN big memory instances have 4/8 cores, well within the area where MySQL performs well.