Even when it’s not a cloud provider, in fact, especially when it’s not a cloud provider: you can achieve insane scale from single instances.
Of course these systems have warm standbys, dedicated backup infrastructure and so it’s not really a “single machine”; but I’ve seen 80TiB Postgres instances back in 2011.
Of course these systems have warm standbys, dedicated backup infrastructure and so it’s not really a “single machine”; but I’ve seen 80TiB Postgres instances back in 2011.