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An EC2 I3 has up to 3.3 million IOPS.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/02/now-avail...

"Up to". Also we don't know how many underlying SSD devices there are, which is my point. This is a single drive that supports radically more sustained random IOPS than we've ever seen, at a very low price point compared to comparable solutions.

That's with eight 1.9 TB devices. You can scale it down, of course.

Anyway, the point is you do not need to spend anywhere near $32,500/m to get that kind of performance from AWS. (As long as you don't mind using non-EBS storage.) In this case, an i3.16xlarge is $27,856 per YEAR (if paid upfront).

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