Comment by tetha

Interestingly enough,

> For example, Azure Standard_E192ibds_v6 is 96 cores with 1.8 TB of memory and 10 TB of local SSD storage with 3 million IOPS.

Is a well-stocked Dell Server going for ~50 - 60K capex without storage before the RAM prices exploded. I"m wondering a bit about the CPU in there, but the Storage + RAM is fairly normal and nothing crazy. I'm pretty sure you could have that in a rack for 100k hardware pricing.