[rmb938]

Maybe it's worth trying out GCP for a POC cluster? Downside is they don't have any ARM instances but some back of the napkin math does show that an equivalent setup of using 6x im4gn.2xlarge in AWS to 6xn2-standard-8 and 6x3750gb pd-balanced ssds is roughly around the same cost and disk perf, could be a bit cheaper with their AMD instances instead of Intel. If you compare it to a gp2 disk it's roughly 4x faster, but the same per for local disk on im4gn.2xlarge.

I also have had decent success with getting committed use and reservations on GCP ssd compared to other cloud providers.

[lizthegrey]

It would be for GCP based customers, but we are a telemetry platform and making our (majority) AWS based customers pay 0.08 per GB to egress to us is a non-starter for them :/