wonderful, thank you. Some translations to AWS RDS...
"512gb of ram and dual EPYC 74F3 24 core processors, backed by a 4 drive raid10 nvme linux software raid volume on top of micron 9300 drives"
roughly translates to about an db.r8g.16xlarge (64 vCPUs, 512gb ram) $4,949 / month on-demand for compute
I'm not familiar enough with hardware to determine IOPS for the raid config but I believe it is greater than the maximum for io2 block express storage on aws (256k IOPS):
$0.10 per provisioned IOPS-month = 256000$.10 = $25,600 / month IOPS -- which feels high so I might be way off on the raid setup's IOPS
$0.125 per GB-month storage = 500gb $0.125 = $62.50
That's about $31,930 / month without any reserved discounts for an estimated capacity of 5,000 rps, sound about right? Would you say your total hardware cost is less than one or two months of comparable compute on AWS if the above is true?
Yup, last time I priced this in RDS I got to maybe $20k a month for two reserved instances across AZs.
I pay for our rack outright every 3-4 months from what I can tell. Still takes the same number of infra/ops/sre people as well. We staff 2, but really just have 1.25 worth of FTE work, you just need more for redundancy.
Pretty nuts! This is also why I am so dismissive of performance optimization. Yeah, I'll just buy a new set of three machines with 2tb of ram each in a few years and call it good, still come out ahead.
"512gb of ram and dual EPYC 74F3 24 core processors, backed by a 4 drive raid10 nvme linux software raid volume on top of micron 9300 drives"
roughly translates to about an db.r8g.16xlarge (64 vCPUs, 512gb ram) $4,949 / month on-demand for compute
I'm not familiar enough with hardware to determine IOPS for the raid config but I believe it is greater than the maximum for io2 block express storage on aws (256k IOPS):
$0.10 per provisioned IOPS-month = 256000$.10 = $25,600 / month IOPS -- which feels high so I might be way off on the raid setup's IOPS
$0.125 per GB-month storage = 500gb $0.125 = $62.50
That's about $31,930 / month without any reserved discounts for an estimated capacity of 5,000 rps, sound about right? Would you say your total hardware cost is less than one or two months of comparable compute on AWS if the above is true?