@Christian_Dahlqvist understood.
@morphers82 Thank you, this was very helpful and the exact kind of advice I was looking for. Without asking you to get into much detail (don't want to waste your time 
) would you recommend Memory Optimized servers for data nodes ( X1, R4) vs the General Purpose ( T2, M4 ) servers? My ES instincts tell me I should choose memory optimized over compute optimized or storage optimized. I'll attach a pdf of my current cluster design. Also I will be scaling horizontally, rather then vertically, as I add data to maximize the java heap ( given from each machine ). I will be allocating more primary shards then nodes during the initial index creation to take advantage of the extra data nodes that are added. Also I find it very interesting that you say EBS is not able to handle queries with that amount of data. thanks again!