hs1.8xl's don't come with SSD storage. See http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ where it's not flagged as having

hs1.8xl's don't come with SSD storage. See http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ where it's not flagged as having SSD's. As I noted above - cloud pricing is hard.