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"Instead of using AWS primitives, they built their service on their own hardware in neighboring data centers, and utilized AWS DirectConnect to provide low late
by jbellis 14y ago
"Instead of using AWS primitives, they built their service on their own hardware in neighboring data centers, and utilized AWS DirectConnect to provide low latency connectivity."
To me that sounds like, "we deploy on SSDs." Which then makes me wonder if the new AWS SSD instances make this obsolete.
- pquerna 14y agoThe High-I/O Quadruple Extra Large starts at around ~$2232 per month for 2tb of SSD storage. With this kind of pricing you will have a hard time meeting user expectations about price; Even with high multi-tenancy on top, and if you tune up that density too much, you will probably push too much ram, as the instances only have 60.5GB accessible, which with 2tb of disk is pretty unbalanced for many mongodb use cases. Disclosure: I'm a Racker and worked on this project.