Wow, today I noticed that AWS now provides a truly massive instance. By request at the moment.
| vCPU | ECU | Memory (GiB) | Instance Storage (GB) | Linux/UNIX Usage | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x1.32xlarge | 128 | 349 | 1952 | 2 x 1920 SSD | $16.006 per Hour |
Above is the EU-WEST-1 (Ireland) pricing for an on demand instance. That equates to $384 per day.
I'm not sure we've seen a workload that could justify this monster. When configuring a cluster we would usually use smaller and many instances to match the load more closely.
In a monolithic environment this could be used as a single SAP HANA node or similar?
Of course we will update you when we find one in production.