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Retail price of the server components (no racks, PDUs, busbars, fibre drop, network switch, KVM, circuit-breaker, rack&stack, rack anti-tip bracing, artistic cabling, tech support): CPU 8176M: $11,805.00 USD x 8 = $94,440.00 RAM 64GB: $866.23 x 192 = $166,316.16 Chassis + 2x 10 GbE NICs + SSD boot device: ~$8000 Total: ~$269k USD AWS price: $803k Under 150% gross profit margin (without electricity, fibre or real-state) over 3 years. I'd say the closer figure is ~ $300-400k per box for single company-scale servers, leading to a closer-to-net profit Amazon profit of around 100% Although, it's possible to keep a server beyond its lifecycle and run it into the ground once it's already paid-for, as opposed to getting nothing at the end of the Amazon lease. There's trade-offs for both cases; some people would rather pay more to not have to deal with quotes, vendors or shipping issues. |
Anyone paying more than a negligible amount (per server) for any of these is needlessly over-paying. For a server this expensive, it had better be way below 1%. (Tech support is arguable, but it costs a pretty penny from AWS, too).
> RAM 64GB: $866.23 x 192 = $166,316.16
These CPUs can't support 192 DIMMs, only 96, so they're limited to the much more expensive 128GB modules. That means you're looking at closer to $250k for the RAM alone.