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> With their SQL Servers loaded with 384 GB of RAM and 2TB of SSD, AWS would cost a fortune.<p>I have next to zero experience with server administration, but 384GB seems like a lot to me.  Is that common for production servers for popular web services?  Do you need a customized OS to address that much memory?  Seems like you'd really need to beef up the cache hierarchy make 0.38TB of RAM fast.