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OP here. Really cool to see people enjoying the write up. It started off as a list of misc AWS topics that I found myself repeatedly explaining to people. It s

by sehrope 13y ago

OP here. Really cool to see people enjoying the write up. It started off as a list of misc AWS topics that I found myself repeatedly explaining to people. It seemed like a good idea to write them down. I'm planning on listing out more in follow up posts.

euphemize 13y ago
Great write-up! Could merge some useful thoughts from here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6991974 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6991974 I'd certainly contribute to this if it was on Github :)
toomuchtodo 13y ago
It'd be great if you could contribute to Ops School (http://www.opsschool.org/en/latest/introduction.html http://www.opsschool.org/en/latest/introduction.html)!
mathattack 13y ago
Great write-up. Thank you for sharing. I like the billing triggers. In hindsight very obvious. Good to learn it without getting burned. :-)
cheese1756 13y ago
Fantastic post with really helpful tips. Thanks a lot for that. I really want to read the details on the spot instance setup for a web service. Do you have a quick summary for that?
- sehrope 13y ago
  > Fantastic post with really helpful tips. Thanks a lot for that. Thanks! > I really want to read the details on the spot instance setup for a web service. Do you have a quick summary for that? I don't have anything written up to point to but the idea is to have the spot instances dynamically register themselves with an ELB on startup. As long as they stay up (ie. spot price is below your bid) you get incredibly cheap scaling for your web service. The ELB will automatically kick out instances that get terminated as they will fail their health checks. Combine this with a couple regular (ie. non spot instances) and you get a web service that scales cheaply when spot prices are low and gradually degrades the QOS for your users when it gets more expensive. I've got a couple other topics in the works first, but I should the write up for that one up pretty soon too. Haven't gotten around to adding an email signup form to my site yet (need to do that...) so shoot me a mail if you want to notified when the full post is up. Email is in my profile.

by sehrope 13y ago

euphemize 13y ago

Great write-up! Could merge some useful thoughts from here too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6991974 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6991974 I'd certainly contribute to this if it was on Github :)

toomuchtodo 13y ago

It'd be great if you could contribute to Ops School (http://www.opsschool.org/en/latest/introduction.html http://www.opsschool.org/en/latest/introduction.html)!

mathattack 13y ago

Great write-up. Thank you for sharing. I like the billing triggers. In hindsight very obvious. Good to learn it without getting burned. :-)

cheese1756 13y ago

Fantastic post with really helpful tips. Thanks a lot for that. I really want to read the details on the spot instance setup for a web service. Do you have a quick summary for that?

sehrope 13y ago
> Fantastic post with really helpful tips. Thanks a lot for that. Thanks! > I really want to read the details on the spot instance setup for a web service. Do you have a quick summary for that? I don't have anything written up to point to but the idea is to have the spot instances dynamically register themselves with an ELB on startup. As long as they stay up (ie. spot price is below your bid) you get incredibly cheap scaling for your web service. The ELB will automatically kick out instances that get terminated as they will fail their health checks. Combine this with a couple regular (ie. non spot instances) and you get a web service that scales cheaply when spot prices are low and gradually degrades the QOS for your users when it gets more expensive. I've got a couple other topics in the works first, but I should the write up for that one up pretty soon too. Haven't gotten around to adding an email signup form to my site yet (need to do that...) so shoot me a mail if you want to notified when the full post is up. Email is in my profile.