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I think this type of thing will end up being useful for special cases, but in general we'll still want to run our own servers. Their use case of creating a publ

I think this type of thing will end up being useful for special cases, but in general we'll still want to run our own servers. Their use case of creating a public API is a great one: it's a simple interface and having Lambda handle the auto-scaling is pretty awesome.

coredog64 10y ago
We are using Lambda to export CloudWatch metrics to another system. Haven't exceeded the free tier of Lambda yet, and CW itself was only $5 last month. Having a t2 up the whole time would have been way more, plus it would have been subject to our Chaos Monkey.
- oneplane 10y ago
  Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper if you have a dedicated box where you can run your own VMs and add and remove services as you please? So far, running one at base cost with leased hardware costs about 1/10th of any 'cloud' provider out there, with lots more resources to go around. Right now, if want to spin up a new instance, container or process, I can do it locally, in vagrant or on a VM on the dedicated box all with the same config and management ease of the configuration management stack (we use SaltStack). It also works just fine with stuff like GCE or AWS, but those simply are never ever the 'cheapest' option. At best, they are a in-between solution when we need more hardware. It's great for temporary scaling, but of nominal resource usage there is no point in using those services at all, at least for us. The cost of a dedicated box is static, no matter how much you use, and yet it is always lower than the mean cost or 95th percentile of any AWS/GCE kind of thing. For (converted currency from euro) about 100USD we get 16 E5 cores, 92GB RAM, 1TB SSD RAID10, 10TB HDD RAID10 and 8TB transfer on a dual 1Gbit link. For the life of me I can't find any combination on Amazon to match that.

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I think this type of thing will end up being useful for special cases, but in general we'll still want to run our own servers. Their use case of creating a publ

by audleman 10y ago

coredog64 10y ago
We are using Lambda to export CloudWatch metrics to another system. Haven't exceeded the free tier of Lambda yet, and CW itself was only $5 last month. Having a t2 up the whole time would have been way more, plus it would have been subject to our Chaos Monkey.
- oneplane 10y ago
  Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper if you have a dedicated box where you can run your own VMs and add and remove services as you please? So far, running one at base cost with leased hardware costs about 1/10th of any 'cloud' provider out there, with lots more resources to go around. Right now, if want to spin up a new instance, container or process, I can do it locally, in vagrant or on a VM on the dedicated box all with the same config and management ease of the configuration management stack (we use SaltStack). It also works just fine with stuff like GCE or AWS, but those simply are never ever the 'cheapest' option. At best, they are a in-between solution when we need more hardware. It's great for temporary scaling, but of nominal resource usage there is no point in using those services at all, at least for us. The cost of a dedicated box is static, no matter how much you use, and yet it is always lower than the mean cost or 95th percentile of any AWS/GCE kind of thing. For (converted currency from euro) about 100USD we get 16 E5 cores, 92GB RAM, 1TB SSD RAID10, 10TB HDD RAID10 and 8TB transfer on a dual 1Gbit link. For the life of me I can't find any combination on Amazon to match that.