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dataviz1000today at 6:13 PM3 repliesview on HN

  > 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

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svuivtoday at 7:04 PM

your calculation does not account for the load generation and cross-az network cost

secondcomingtoday at 7:54 PM

I see the machine sizes some people are allowed to use and I cry. Here I am being asked to downsize our VMs to only use 32 GB RAM.

jeffbeetoday at 7:00 PM

Sounds more right. Where did $250k come from?

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