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In my team, we often deploy internal "services" as cronjobs on an EC2 service. This hasn't run into any issues in 24 months. One of these we decided to move to
by VHRanger 5y ago
In my team, we often deploy internal "services" as cronjobs on an EC2 service. This hasn't run into any issues in 24 months.
One of these we decided to move to a more serious infrastructure (a set of AWS lambdas). It's failed three times in 6 months since, and we're moving it back to be a good old cronjob on a server.
Simple is good.
- SamuelAdams 5y agoJust curious what your cost differences are between a dedicated EC2 instance and lambdas. For our organization an EC2 instance was at best 8-10 times more expensive than lambdas.
- azmodeus 5y agoThe question is also what's the cost of troubleshooting the lambda service going down 3 times. 10x more expensive and reliable can be a good trade.
- x0x0 5y agolikely dwarfed by eng time, both in dollars and opportunity cost
- callmeal 5y agoAWS Lightsail instances are pretty affordable ($10/mo and up)
- SanchoPanda 5y ago$3.5 USD and up
- VHRanger 5y agoThere are multiple equivalent lambdas on a single EC2 instance, so it's running jobs 10-12hours per day
- cheeze 5y agoWhat does the cronjob do? Start some service that listens for inbound connections? Or are you talking more about daemons that do some set of work every interval?
- VHRanger 5y agoETL and modelling, then pushing the modeled values to tables