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Just curious, what type of AWS instances you use? And also is it on-demand instance or reserved instances? I'm using AWS for couple of years, exploring other op

by giis 10y ago

Just curious, what type of AWS instances you use? And also is it on-demand instance or reserved instances? I'm using AWS for couple of years, exploring other options.

tzaman 10y ago
On demand: m1.medium mostly for Rails and Node apps and db.m3.medium for RDS (Postgres). Now on GCE, we use Kubernetes, which means the type of instances is rather insignificant as they can be instantly scaled up when more resources are needed for containers.
- giis 10y ago
  thanks for the details.
- joncrane 10y ago
  m1.medium? That's two generations ago. Just by switching to m3.mediums, you'd get 23% savings. If you could see fit to switch to t2.medium, you'd be saving 40%. source: http://www.ec2instances.info/ http://www.ec2instances.info/