That's roughly 250x more than it would cost to perform this stunt using on-demand Cloud Bigtable, if my math checks out (~1150 nodes @ 85¢/hour for 1h).
> 512 shards, each with one Postgres primary each on an r8g.16xlarge > 480 Neki routers, each on its own 8xlarge instance > We sustained 118,538,803 QPS for 16 minutes across 512 shards and 1.22 PiB of data. Our largest recording was 118,747,267. Component Detail Monthly Hourly 16-min burst --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shard compute 512x r8g.16xlarge $1.41M $1,930 $515 Router compute 480x r8g.8xlarge* $661K $905 $241 Storage (gp3 floor) 1.22 PiB @ $0.08/GB-mo $102K $140 $37 Storage (io2 floor) 1.22 PiB @ $0.125/GB-mo $160K $219 $58 IOPS (io2, light) 5K IOPS/shard, tiered rate $166K $228 $61 IOPS (io2, medium) 20K IOPS/shard, tiered rate $666K $912 $243 IOPS (io2, worst-case) 231,517 IOPS/shard (0% cache) $4.56M $6,251 $1,667 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total (gp3 floor) $2.17M $2,975 $793 Total (io2 floor) $2.23M $3,054 $814 Total (io2 + light IOPS) $2.40M $3,282 $875 Total (io2 + medium IOPS) $2.90M $3,966 $1,058 Total (io2 + worst-case IOPS) $6.79M $9,305 $2,481