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It would be interesting if they could get rid of "types" concept, and just let people pull together memory, ecus, and storage on demand.
by NoPiece 14y ago
It 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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