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Pity they didn't introduce smaller High I/O instance types. I would love High I/O but don't need anywhere near 60Gb RAM :/
by shimms 14y ago
Pity they didn't introduce smaller High I/O instance types. I would love High I/O but don't need anywhere near 60Gb RAM :/
- NoPiece 14y agoIt would be interesting if they could get rid of "types" concept, and just let people pull together memory, ecus, and storage on demand.
- cperciva 14y agoThat would be a provisioning nightmare, trying to figure out which partially-used-up box to place a new instance into. Much easier to slice them into fixed sizes.
- NoPiece 14y agoIt definitely would be a nightmare! But they have a big enough pool of hardware and users that it might be possible. As it is, there are inefficiencies because of the lack of choice. For example, I had some large instances because I wanted at least 4 ECUs, and needed 4GB of ram. I had to take on the extra memory even though I didn't need or use it. Now I am using high cpu medium instances, but would gladly pay a little more for an extra gig or two of memory.
- rbanffy 14y agoSomeone's provisioning nightmare is someone else's business opportunity ;-)
- mkuhn 14y agoCloudsigma (www.cloudsigma.com) is trying to grasp that opportunity.
- akh 14y agoSoftLayer do this with their cloud servers, but I can imagine most companies would use that to build standard 'types' for themselves and re-use them.
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