Prerequisites
The RPC service can be installed on bare metal or a virtual machine. It is natively supported on both Linux and Windows operating systems.
Hardware Requirements
| Node Type | CPU | RAM | Disk | AWS SKU | Google Cloud SKU |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stellar RPC | 2 vCPU | 4GB | 125 GB persistent volume >= 3K IOPS | c5.large | n4-highcpu-2 |
* Disk: Assuming the default 7-day retention window for data storage. Otherwise, 20GB + 15GB per retention day * RAM/CPU: Assuming RPC will serve up to 1000 requests per second. For deployments expecting 1000-10000+ requests per second to Stellar RPC, we recommend at least 8GB of RAM and at least a quad core CPU with a 2.4GHz clock speed.
We highly recommend using a local SSD disk for storage. RPC is compatible with network-based filesystems like AWS EBS but it will negatively impact its performance.