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in the us-west-2-lax-1a local zone, i just booted 100 r5.xlarge spot instances as fortnite like game servers[1]. 1 to be a central server, 99 to be fake players
by nathants 2y ago
in the us-west-2-lax-1a local zone, i just booted 100 r5.xlarge spot instances as fortnite like game servers[1]. 1 to be a central server, 99 to be fake players. the server broadcasts x100 write amplified data from every player to every player. the 101st serve is my local pc.
the server broadcasts at 200 MB/s[2]. the whole setup costs me $3-4 usd/hour and by far the slowest part of boot is my game compiling on the central server, whether i store ccache data in s3 or not. i've booted this every day for the last 6 months, to test the game.
if your system can't handle 30s vm boots, your system should improve.
1. https://r2.nathants.workers.dev/ec2_snitch.png https://r2.nathants.workers.dev/ec2_snitch.png
2. https://r2.nathants.workers.dev/ec2_boot.mp4 https://r2.nathants.workers.dev/ec2_boot.mp4