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H1 Instances – Fast, Dense Storage for Big Data Apps

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28 pointsjeffbarr4 comments

Biggest issue with everything on AWS or GCP is still the bandwidth costs... $0.09 down to $0.05 per GB just kills most live production service use cases.

Weird pricing. Way more expensive per TB than d2s (existing hard drive instances), and only a bit cheaper than i3s (which have blazing fast NVMe SSDs).

Assuming partial-upfront reservations:

  d2:  41$/month/TB
  h1: 135$/month/TB
  i3: 153$/month/TB

You also get more memory per GB with the i3s. Hard to see why anybody would choose these instances without a significant price cut.

Know what would be great? Pricing info

Try https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

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