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50% compared to what? AWS EC2? Lambda? Google Cloud Run? Those sort of numbers without even having a pricing page give me 0 confidence sorry.

• nderjung 5y ago
  We are launching a pricing page in the next month as we are gearing up for launch :) One example of recieving a 50% cost saving is from Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). We compared the cheapest official NGINX AMI available on the Amazon Marketplace[0] and then also ran an NGINX+Unikraft AMI. We ran the same workload using wrk[1] and then checked the bill at the end of the month, roughly $80 vs $40. [0]: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-xogyq23b3mfge https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-xogyq23b3mfge [1]: https://github.com/wg/wrk https://github.com/wg/wrk
  • pid-1 5y ago
    Really? Most of the costs for using the NGINX AMI + t2.nano come from software (0.29/hr), not EC2 (0.006/hr). That's like the worst instance you could pick to prove anything about the performance of your platform. At most you're telling me your AMI costs half of NGINX's... Which still is a lot more than just running Ubuntu with a free AMI.
    • nderjung 5y ago
      This is true, but the same principle applies to EC2 instance. We also tried renting an m3.medium and installed Debian+NGINX on one and Unikraft+NGINX on another and experienced the same cost savings with, in addition, twice the performance (roughly 12K req/s vs. 26K req/s).