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One trick to watch out for: a cloud provider offering inexpensive egress can still make high-egress expensive by controlling the network speed of their instance
by 8organicbits 3y ago
One trick to watch out for: a cloud provider offering inexpensive egress can still make high-egress expensive by controlling the network speed of their instances. Several vendors require you to scale your whole instance if you saturate any of the components (like needing to upgrade from the 2 CPU to the 4 CPU instance to increase the network throughput, even though you don't need more CPU). On paper egress looks cheap and the instances look well priced for the hardware you get, but if you workload doesn't need balanced a balanced instance (1 CPU / 1 GB RAM / etc.) the pricing can get wonky.
- foofie 3y ago> Several vendors require you to scale your whole instance if you saturate any of the components (...) Interesting. Which cloud providers do you have in mind?
- PuffinBlue 3y agoThe GP might be referring to how most of the non-hyperscalers like Linode or DigitalOcean or Vultr tie total monthly egress to instance size. IIRC they do allow overage charges at $x per GB but it quickly becomes more expensive to do it that way.
- Mortiffer 3y agoLike scaleway