[dkoston]

In my experience, you don’t. With tons of IOPS you need EBS or crazy expensive instances.

Instead you use a cloud like google cloud where you can add NVMe SSDs to whatever instance type you need and configure custom RAM and CPU instead of picking from the super expensive AWS instances with no configurable options and almost always the wrong resource allocations for your workload.

Source: testing my infrastructure that requires 60,000 iops on both google cloud and AWS and it being 1/4 the cost and higher performance on Google. Of note: this was a very high throughput streaming data application. YMMV for other applications.