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I've built this page since I often just want to pick a spot instance type that gives me biggest bang for the buck. Amazon's own pricing page is still very confu
by bzz01 9y ago
I've built this page since I often just want to pick a spot instance type that gives me biggest bang for the buck. Amazon's own pricing page is still very confusing, and ec2instances.info is great but it is a static website and adding spot prices there is nontrivial.
I've also fixed a few minor things that annoyed me, such as correct sorting by instance type (so that r3.16x goes after r3.4x) and added a mode to display spot savings vs on-demand.
Would appreciate any feedback!
- jbverschoor 9y agoBest bang for buck is not at amazon.
- chx 9y agoRight. So the Show HN page says you can barely go below $5 per gigabyte with on-demand pricing. OVH RAM instances consistently cost 1.33 $/GB for a machine with 30, 60, 120 or 240GB of RAM.
- nodesocket 9y agoI havent looked at OVH lately, but are they really a cloud? Do they provide full VPC with central firewall? Dynamic network disk storage that can be mapped to servers?
- mschuster91 9y agoHow does EBS work, anyway? Is it some form of NFS with caching under the hood?
- eropple 9y agoIt's not NFS, it's a block storage mechanism. NFS presents a file-based interface, EBS is a block/device-based interface. The underlying implementation isn't widely publicized, but if you think about how a block device works on a Unix and the AWS bigger-is-faster model for non-PIOPS EBS, you can probably draw some reasonable inferences.
- ty_a 9y agoIIRC EBS is based on GNBD.
- chx 9y agoSuch rumors have been around for quite a while -- Amazon is not talking -- but their relevant patent https://www.google.com/patents/US8769186 https://www.google.com/patents/US8769186 has > For example, in at least some embodiments, a representative logical local block data storage device may be made available to an executing program via use of GNBD (“Global Network Block Device”) technology.
- floatboth 9y agoEBS is some kind of Network Block Device. NFS is another product, https://aws.amazon.com/efs/ https://aws.amazon.com/efs/
- eropple 9y agoOVH does have their vRack stuff these days, but it's iffy and clearly intended for dedicated hardware. They have no block storage that I'm aware of.
- bryanlarsen 9y agoThey do have it: https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/public-cloud/storage/additional-disks/ https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/public-cloud/storage/additional-di... It's OpenStack Cinder. They also have object storage, Swift: https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/public-cloud/storage/object-storage/ https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/public-cloud/storage/object-storag...
- eropple 9y agoTIL, thanks! Didn't realize OVH was OpenStack--that's a pretty hard no for me, because I've witnessed firsthand the failure conditions there, but I appreciate the correction.
- eropple 9y agoIf all you need is compute and RAM, then OVH dedicated machines are a great choice; I used them for a long time myself and would again for personal stuff. That said, it's important to remember that focusing on that to the exclusion of turn-key services (RDS has saved clients of mine tens of thousands of dollars in billable hours just by itself) doesn't do you so well once you need more than that.
- shimon_e 9y agoOVH have a beta RDS-like service. https://www.runabove.com/index.xml https://www.runabove.com/index.xml
- eropple 9y agoWhen they have RDS and Redshift and and Athena and SQS and SNS and when they have a fully-functional API that crosses every platform I need to write code against and years of a proven track record of stone-cold simplicity and success, I am sure I will take that into account. Time is valuable. AWS/GCE/Azure have a huge head start in making us more productive.
- purespark2 9y agoThis is very useful for me too. Thanks for putting it together! For me, it would also be nice to see the total price/time unit on the same table as the price/gb.