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I did some benchmarking and figured out that Lightsail is just another name for T2 instances. Just different branding for the same product.
by pradeepchhetri 10y ago
I did some benchmarking and figured out that Lightsail is just another name for T2 instances. Just different branding for the same product.
- balls187 10y agoDifferent branding, and more importantly an even more simplified interface. Unlike the AWS EC2 Web Console, Lightsail makes it very simple to to create a VPS: pay Y per month for a server than can do X.
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- setq 10y agoDoes the lightsail instances have a hard CPU credit limit as well? The "let's turn into a snail in the middle of a kernel update and shaft everything" one.
- pradeepchhetri 10y agoActually, that will be interesting to test.
- retSava 10y agoWasn't that the finding of the article? That once the load required enough of the CPU over enough long time, CPU credits ran out and the CPU was throttled?
- setq 10y agoThere's CPU throttled and then there's the 'completely undocumented useless wall of pain' I find with T2 instances which is a bit after that. A throttled box is usually just about responsive but there is a point of no return. This might be a side effect of the throttling however.
- cuu508 10y ago> It took only 2 hours after setup and an average 25% cpu usage for the cpu steal to start climbing, just a few percentage points at first, but more than 80% after one more hour. Sounds like CPU throttling is not an on/off thing but kicks in gradually.
- trome 10y agoSounds like they throttle you, then only give you excess resources after a certain point. Kinda kills the point of a server if it grinds to a near halt, the initial throttling is workable.
- djhworld 10y agoThe pricing is a little different though from what I can tell, you just pay a flat fee.