One Amazon x1e.32xlarge instance with 128 cores and 3,904 GB of RAM costs $233,786.88 US per year (on demand pricing).
(24) 128GB ECC DDR4 Samsung DIMMs currently costs $25,000.
(1) Epyc CPU with 64/128 cores runs around $13,000.
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For a little more than $50,000, you could build a 256 core server with 4TB of RAM.
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Basically for the price of that one Amazon instance, you could purchase 4 of those servers for a combined 1,024 cores with 16TB of RAM.
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That's not even getting into the outrageous egress bandwidth fees.
I mean, think of poor Bezos - how else will continue to be the richest man in modern history?