AWS biggest instance

9 June 2016 · Filed in Infrastructure

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.

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