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Here's hoping your infrastructure scaling plan has more than 30% CPU headroom...

by freen 9y ago

forgot-my-pw 9y ago
Is this good news for AWS? Some customers will be forced to upgrade to a larger instance.
- a2tech 9y ago
  Redddit has been running like garbage the last few days-I bet they're getting slammed with their instances needing mass reboots+big performance decreases
  - innagadadavida 9y ago
    Are they running in a virtualized environment? They could just disable it as all the code is their own and is trusted?
- meritt 9y ago
  Unless customers absolutely raise hell, this is going to be very good for AWS. Suddenly all of these autoscaling setups are going to consume 30% more resources in order to achieve the same throughput. My expectation is we may see AWS apply some significant discounting to AWS services as a result, though that doesn't help all of us who utilize mostly prepaid reserved instances.
  - epmaybe 9y ago
    Are the majority of aws revenues from casual users that probably wouldn't care? If so, I think you're going to be proven right. If, however, major customers make up the majority of revenue, then the answer seems less clear to me.
    - meritt 9y ago
      Major customers are absolutely the primary revenue source. AWS revenue follows the pareto principle.
  - jacques_chester 9y ago
    > My expectation is we may see AWS apply some significant discounting to AWS services as a result, though that doesn't help all of us who utilize mostly prepaid reserved instances. It'll happen once one of the 3 main clouds breaks ranks and discounts their rates to match.
- deleted 9y ago
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- foobarbazetc 9y ago
  There’s a case to be made that AWS is suddenly providing you 30% less than what you paid for. Imagine having reserved instances and they get 30% slower.
  - PuffinBlue 9y ago
    Not sure if you saw this a few days back but this exact issue is already impacting some folks and they're obviously not happy. https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=269858 https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=269858
- guelo 9y ago
  Maybe, except that it makes running in non-virtualized environments more attractive.
  - danudey 9y ago
    Because you can run without security patches?
    - guelo 9y ago
      I hope so for this one. It would suck to have to pay the performance penalty when you don't need to.
- empath75 9y ago
  Or they’ll go bankrupt.

Here's hoping your infrastructure scaling plan has more than 30% CPU headroom...

by freen 9y ago

Here's hoping your infrastructure scaling plan has more than 30% CPU headroom...

forgot-my-pw 9y ago

Is this good news for AWS? Some customers will be forced to upgrade to a larger instance.

a2tech 9y ago
Redddit has been running like garbage the last few days-I bet they're getting slammed with their instances needing mass reboots+big performance decreases
- innagadadavida 9y ago
  Are they running in a virtualized environment? They could just disable it as all the code is their own and is trusted?
meritt 9y ago
Unless customers absolutely raise hell, this is going to be very good for AWS. Suddenly all of these autoscaling setups are going to consume 30% more resources in order to achieve the same throughput. My expectation is we may see AWS apply some significant discounting to AWS services as a result, though that doesn't help all of us who utilize mostly prepaid reserved instances.
- epmaybe 9y ago
  Are the majority of aws revenues from casual users that probably wouldn't care? If so, I think you're going to be proven right. If, however, major customers make up the majority of revenue, then the answer seems less clear to me.
  - meritt 9y ago
    Major customers are absolutely the primary revenue source. AWS revenue follows the pareto principle.
- jacques_chester 9y ago
  > My expectation is we may see AWS apply some significant discounting to AWS services as a result, though that doesn't help all of us who utilize mostly prepaid reserved instances. It'll happen once one of the 3 main clouds breaks ranks and discounts their rates to match.
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foobarbazetc 9y ago
There’s a case to be made that AWS is suddenly providing you 30% less than what you paid for. Imagine having reserved instances and they get 30% slower.
- PuffinBlue 9y ago
  Not sure if you saw this a few days back but this exact issue is already impacting some folks and they're obviously not happy. https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=269858 https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=269858
guelo 9y ago
Maybe, except that it makes running in non-virtualized environments more attractive.
- danudey 9y ago
  Because you can run without security patches?
  - guelo 9y ago
    I hope so for this one. It would suck to have to pay the performance penalty when you don't need to.
empath75 9y ago
Or they’ll go bankrupt.