# Infrastructure Requirements The infrastructure required to support Teranode's ambitious transaction processing capabilities is substantial. The development team utilized **AWS (Amazon Web Services)** to deploy nodes, each configured with: * **96 CPUs** * **512 GB of RAM** * **NVMe disks for high-speed data access** To achieve the desired performance, the team operated **20 machines per node**, resulting in a total of **3,000 CPUs** and approximately **15 terabytes of RAM** across six nodes. This configuration enabled the system to reach a peak performance of **1.1 million transactions per second**. However, the cost of maintaining such infrastructure is significant, with each node costing around **$250,000 per month**. The decision to limit performance to 1.1 million TPS was primarily driven by cost considerations rather than technical limitations, highlighting the potential for even greater scalability in the future. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://hub.bsvblockchain.org/higher-learning/bsv-academy/bsv-network-topology/essentials-of-teranode-microservices-and-infrastructure-solutions/infrastructure-requirements.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.