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qaq on March 11, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hard Tech is Back

Nope you really can't that's why RDS, Azure SQL etc. have pretty bad limitations on max instance sizes. The service itself is integrated storage layer (think PostgreSQL + ElasticSearch + Event Bus) that can scale far beyond what is possible with current options.

n00b101 on March 11, 2016 [–]

Well good luck, but as far as Infiniband goes, keep in mind that cloud cluster interconnects will get better over time and AWS is at 10Mbit now ...

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