AWS configuration options

Your instances require specific configurations of memory, CPU, storage, and networking capacity. Our recommendations for instance types differ, depending on whether you are accessing your data by loading it into ThoughtSpot’s in-memory database, or if you are connecting to your data in a cloud data warehouse.

ThoughtSpot can be deployed in your AWS environment by deploying compute (VM) instances in your Amazon VPC as well as an underlying persistent storage infrastructure. Currently two configuration modes are supported by ThoughtSpot:

Mode 1: Compute VMs

EBS-only persistent storage

Mode 2: Compute VMs

EBS and S3 persistent storage

The cost of infrastructure for deploying ThoughtSpot is cheaper when using S3. However, there are differences in where data is loaded, as well as in the backup and restore procedures. For assistance in choosing the best mode for your organization, contact your ThoughtSpot representative. For more information on purchasing ThoughtSpot in AWS, see: ThoughtSpot Pricing.

All AWS VMs in a ThoughtSpot cluster must be in the same availability zone (and therefore, also in the same region). ThoughtSpot does not support deploying VMs in the same cluster across availability zones. For more information, see Regions and Availability Zones in Amazon’s AWS documentation.

ThoughtSpot AWS instance types

The following sections contain the supported and recommended instance types for a ThoughtSpot AWS deployment. When setting up your cluster in AWS, use the information here to select an instance type, configure the number of instances required for the storage you need, and add data volumes to your cluster. Our recommendations for instance types differ, depending on whether you are accessing your data by loading it into ThoughtSpot’s in-memory database, or if you are connecting to your data in a cloud data warehouse.

For example: If you were deploying a total cluster data size of 1 TB using the standard r5.16xlarge instance type, you would need 4 VM instances, because the instance type supports data capacity of 250 GB. The data volumes on the EBS would need to be provision with 2x1 TB volumes per VM.

Instance types for in-memory data

VMs with EBS-only persistent storage

persistent storage ebs
EBS-only persistent storage: Recommended capacity and volume, based on user data capacity, on a "per VM" basis
User data capacity[1] Instance type CPU/RAM Managed Disk volume[1] Required boot volume

20 GB

r4.4xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r5a.4xlarge

16/122, 16/128, 16/128

2X 400 GB

200 GB for each node

100 GB

r4.8xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r5a.8xlarge

32/244, 32/256, 32/256

2X 400 GB

200 GB for each node

192 GB

m5.24xlarge, r5.12xlarge, r5a.12xlarge

96/384, 48/384, 48/384

2X 1 TB

200 GB for each node

250 GB

r4.16xlarge, r5.16xlarge, r5a.16xlarge

64/488, 64/512, 64/512

2x 1 TB

200 GB for each node

384 GB

r5.24xlarge, r5a.24xlarge

96/768, 96/768

2X 1.5 TB

200 GB for each node

VMs with EBS and S3 persistent storage

persistent storage ebs s3
EBS and S3 persistent storage: Recommended capacity and volume, based on user data capacity, on a "per VM" basis
User data capacity[1] Instance type CPU/RAM Premium SSD Managed Disk volume[1] Required boot volume

20 GB

r4.4xlarge, r5.4xlarge, r5a.4xlarge

16/122, 16/128, 16/128

1x 500 GB

200 GB for each node

100 GB

r4.8xlarge, r5.8xlarge, r5a.8xlarge

32/244, 32/256, 32/256

1x 500 GB

200 GB for each node

192 GB

m5.24xlarge, r5.12xlarge, r5a.12xlarge

96/384, 48/384, 48/384

1x 500 GB

200 GB for each node

250 GB

r4.16xlarge, r5.16xlarge, r5a.16xlarge

64/488, 64/512, 64/512

1x 500 GB

200 GB for each node

384 GB

r5.24xlarge, r5a.24xlarge

96/768, 96/768

1x 500 GB

200 GB for each node

The S3 bucket size is approximately equal to the size of the user data.

For most instances, the per VM recommended user data capacity is set at 50% of the available RAM on the instance. However, in the case of our 16CPU/128GB RAM and 32CPU/256GB RAM instances, we support user data sizes below those numbers to budget for application overhead.

Instance types for cloud data warehouse connections

VMs with EBS-only persistent storage

EBS-only persistent storage: Recommended capacity and volume, based on user data capacity, on a "per VM" basis
User data capacity[1] Instance type CPU/RAM Premium SSD Managed Disk volume[1] Required boot volume

Up to 1B rows

r4.4xlarge, r5.4xlarge

16/122, 16/128

2X 400 GB

200 GB for each node

Up to 4B rows

r5.8xlarge

32/256

2X 400 GB

200 GB for each node

4B+ rows

r5.16xlarge

64/512

2x 1 TB

200 GB for each node

VMs with EBS and S3 persistent storage

EBS and S3 persistent storage: Recommended capacity and volume, based on user data capacity, on a "per VM" basis
User data capacity[1] Instance type CPU/RAM EBS volume[1] Required boot volume

Up to 1B rows

r4.4xlarge, r5.4xlarge

16/122, 16/128

1x 500 GB

200 GB for each node

Up to 4B rows

r5.8xlarge

32/256

1x 500 GB

200 GB for each node

4B+ rows

r5.16xlarge

64/512

1x 500 GB

200 GB for each node



1. For each VM