AWS question which may be of interest to other AWS Kafka users. We are looking at upgrading our brokers to the new I3 <https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/02/now-available-amazon-ec2-i3-instances-next-generation-storage-optimized-high-i-o-instances/>series. The I3.16xlarge is the biggest and has the following specs.
- 488.0 GB memory - 64 vCPUs - 15200 GB (8 * 1900 GB NVMe SSD) storage - 20 Gigabit network performance The cost ends up being more expensive that our current config but reasonable for what you get. Does anyone have experience with the I3 series yet? Fast disks and 20GB connection will be great but what broker/java settings should we tweak to maximize the benefits of the memory, CPU, 8 disks, etc. To round out the cluster, what are AWS servers are people using for Zookeeper now that offsets are stored in the brokers? In case it matters, we are upgrading to 0.10.1. Thanks for your help, -John
