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You probably didn't evaluate Spot prices. I wrote a tool once to evaluate current AWS spot prices against the Ethereum price and sometimes it was a low as losin
by Jdam 9y ago
You probably didn't evaluate Spot prices. I wrote a tool once to evaluate current AWS spot prices against the Ethereum price and sometimes it was a low as losing 2 cents per hour and G2 instance.
- logicallee 9y agoAWS is by far the most profitable business unit at Amazon, with margins consistently in the 25% range. https://www.recode.net/2017/4/27/15451726/amazon-q1-2017-earnings-profits-net-income-cash-flow-chart https://www.recode.net/2017/4/27/15451726/amazon-q1-2017-ear... if this is true: > it was a low as losing 2 cents per hour then it seems someone should be able to negotiate with you (even if not Amazon), especially if you're willing to use 1,000 or 10,000 instances - and don't need memory, etc. it seems 2¢ should be within what you might be able to shave off of somewhere... maybe not, though.
- Jdam 9y agoFunny side note: when I prepared for getting into all this mining and increasing G2 quota in N Virginia from 2 to 20 or so, customer support first needed to check "if this won't disrupt overall region stability". Don't know if this was bs or if scalability in Aws might be worse than we think.
- djb_hackernews 9y agoWe frequently request account limit increases to 1000-2000 instance limits and get the same canned response. Though I bet in the earlier days capacity allowances for GPUs was probably more sensitive.
- jsjohnst 9y agoUsed to get told the same thing for GP2 EBS and R3.8xlarge limits in us-west-2 all the time. On a couple occasions was told no, that increasing the limit wasn't possible due to existing commitments in the region, so I'm not entirely sure if it's a canned response or actually a legit concern of theirs.