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I may be missing something, why is bare metal better in this case (immutable/premptible servers)?
by lma21 10y ago
I may be missing something, why is bare metal better in this case (immutable/premptible servers)?
- banachtarski 10y agoJust the sheer number of instances the OP is using has put the usage FAR into the territory where the premiums spent on virtualized instance costs far outweigh any clever strategy one might use to make things cheaper in the cloud. It has nothing to do with what the infrastructure is, and everything to do with raw volume.
- phonon 10y agoSpot instances are super cheap...about 80% less than regular instances.
- banachtarski 10y agoYea but it's still virtualized slow molasses at the end. And still more expensive. My point is that at 25k servers, even a 5% efficiency gain is significant, and I'm willing to bet the margins are still higher.