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Good luck trying to get huge capacity from AWS with no history. Their service limits start low and ratchet slowly, if they have the capacity to give. All thes
by late2part 11y ago
Good luck trying to get huge capacity from AWS with no history.
Their service limits start low and ratchet slowly, if they have the capacity to give.
All these features and elasticity sound nice until you get big and they don't deliver.
- flyt 11y agoThis is categorically false. If you have large capacity needs talk to your TAMs/Account Manager and they can make it happen.
- late2part 11y agoIt's been true five times in the last three years for me. The elasticity isn't always there and service limits are not always granted when needed. I don't know what an AWS TAM is but the SAs have tried and failed. Make a new account and try to run 1000 c4.4xl in parallel for 1 hour. It won't happen. That's not what happened the five times, but it's illustrative. And who defines what is a need and what is a want?
- slaman 11y agoThat's because of a history of bitcoin mining abuse. People post their API keys on github every day and Amazon refunds almost all of the lost compute time.
- _delirium 11y agoI've asked and got basically a "no". I can believe that if you have a history of spending big $$$ on AWS they get increasingly flexible with raising the limits. But if you don't, they aren't going to let you spin up 500 instances, even if you ask nicely and have a reasonable justification.