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Not only bandwidth, but also disk. And don't forget the CPU throttling, noisy neighbors, IOPS and what not.
by 0xmohit 10y ago
Not only bandwidth, but also disk.
And don't forget the CPU throttling, noisy neighbors, IOPS and what not.
- imtringued 10y agoIs that a problem with AWS? I thought people accept paying a premium because they don't have to deal with these issues anymore. If bandwidth is relatively expensive less people are going to abuse it, etc...
- dijit 10y agoEC2 was designed around the idea of having highly parallel and intensive workloads for short periods of time. For people who use it as a VPS provider, they are going to be hard hit by other tenants who are applying the intended purpose.
- 0xmohit 10y agoYou pay a premium because you expect things to work well. When things don't work, AWS doesn't tell you a reason why it didn't work. Instead they teach you lessons about how to architect your applications for failure by saying: The EC2 team also recommend that you architect for failure using the white paper linked below: https://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/AWS_Cloud_Best_Practices.pdf See my earlier comment as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11822298 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11822298