Memory constrained? Amazon and AMD now offer 1.5TB VMs

Amazon Web Services is sticking with AMD for its next generation of memory-optimized instances in EC2. The Epyc Milan-powered R6a instances, announced today, more than double the memory capacity and network bandwidth, while delivering 35 percent higher performance than its previous generation instances, the cloud giant claims …

[Anonymous Coward]

I see a glorious and beautiful rainbow

table.

[TeeCee]

So.

You can have boatloads of CPUs and more memory than it is physically possible to shake a stick at, aimed at stuff that requires serious computing horsepower and...:

...The instances are also certified for use with SAP workloads...

I'm still ROFLMFAO.

SAP. The gift that keeps on taking.

[logicalextreme]

Re: So.

I still remember taking a former employer's S4/HANA server down, having getting-on-for-a-terabyte of RAM, with an innocent SQL query. It was my bad for not reading the documentation thoroughly enough to realise that CTEs would be materialised (unlike in SQL Server, which is close enough to Sybase to have made my assumption justifiable), but at the same time there's no way in hell that a decent query processor would have used that much memory for what I was doing.

The company seems to be determined to just drain the planet's resources down to the last drop. And then show you how "efficiently" they did it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: So.

"SAP. The gift that keeps on taking."

Public Cloud Provider (i.e. AWS) instances are for SAP's riff-raff customers. Proper HANA customers use SAP's own private "cloud" of bare-metal clusters with even more boatloads of CPU cores and TBs of RAM and SSDs.