EC2 Hardware configuration

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Instance type

We need minimum

1. 500GB for raw input data
2. 1TB for the imported data

ephemeral storage, SSD. I think we should start with i2.4xlarge. Spot pricing is ~0.4$/h. hi1.4xlarge is also a cheaper option.

Disk layout

We have one filesystem for input raw data and another for the database files.

For i2.4xlarge we would use two RAID0 with two physical disks each; hi1.4xlarge has two physical disks, so nothing to do here.