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Message to cloud providers: List what you do you have available so we can choose. Do not force users to randomly guess and be refused until eventually finding
by andrewstuart 4y ago
Message to cloud providers:
List what you do you have available so we can choose.
Do not force users to randomly guess and be refused until eventually finding something available.
- layer8 4y agoWhy would they make any promises, or be upfront about their resources at the risk of becoming less attractive compared to competitors with more resources? It’s not like many people are shunning the cloud for that reason today (although maybe they should).
- bushbaba 4y agoYour price point and the clouds margin is tied to not sitting on lots of unused instances. you want there to be adequate capacity not excessive capacity
- layer8 4y agoIt goes both ways: cloud providers don’t want to make promises about capacity, and cloud users don’t want to make promises about usage. I don’t know about price point. Dedicated servers can be cheaper than cloud in many cases, if you have the appropriate know-how, and the cloud business is very profitable for a reason.
- crmd 4y agoI need big m4n instances with 100gbe for product demos, and spinning them up lately is like trying to get Taylor Swift tickets on Ticketmaster. We end up wasting money running them for days at a time instead of on demand because we’re afraid of losing them. It’s infuriating that AWS doesn’t have an API that returns a list of AZs with available inventory for a given instance type.
- andrewstuart 4y agoWhy not run them elsewhere? There’s lots of providers apart from AWS/Azure/GCP. Or buy a machine and put it in your office. Self hosting can often be cheaper and more available and probably faster than using a cloud.
- senderista 4y agoI’ve had great experiences running bare metal instances on packet.io but haven’t used them since the acquisition. For accurate benchmarking it was fantastic (and much cheaper than EC2 bare metal instances).
- crmd 4y agoWe used to run demos on a local hardware cluster, but we found that prospective customers were reacting negatively to demos that were not on the same platform they would be running in production (AWS).
- sammy2255 4y agoWhich regions are you trying?
- RajT88 4y agoImagine if they did this in realtime. There's already DDOS attacks happening which are abusing the cloud free trials at scale - this would give them another attack vector. I can see why they wouldn't want to do this.
- nerdbert 4y agoIt only has to be available to paying customers. Or even customers over a certain paid usage threshold.
- avereveard 4y agohttps://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/instance-advisor/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/instance-advisor/ It's not the exact metric but you can find which have more availability without knowing the exact number (which is constantly changing anyway)
- Too 4y agoAt bare minimum there should be a feature like "Give me any VM that closely resembles an E8s_v5 with at least 32G ram". Or "anything from these 4 approved types". I don't always care if you give me a E8_v4 or a D8 instead, just give something. With all the 100 of variants of VMs that are available, finding an exact match is obviously an unnecessary constraint. Maybe they already simulate this behind the scenes, I don't know, though given the sizes are advertised with HW capabilities I'd imagine they can't really simulate a v4 using a v5 and vice versa. Only place I've seen compute be treated this fluidly is in Container instance, which is a bad choice for many many other reasons.