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Ask YC: Who uses Amazon EC2 or S3 here? What are your experiences?
Hi. We're just getting a new startup off the ground and are looking at our options. Currently we are running 4 webservers, but are looking at Amazong EC2 and S3. What are your experiences? Financially how does it compare? What other similar services are there? Would be interested in finding out :) Thanks
- aaroneous 19y agoI don't really think that EC2 should be considered a direct replacement for dedicated servers for your average web app, but if you have a need that can leverage the on-demand nature of EC2, then it's a great solution. We use S3 and love it.
- davidw 19y agohttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+ec2&btnG=Google+Search http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Anews.ycombin...
- jpdefillippo 19y agoI use S3 to store all the high and low res images for JPGmag.com and they have performed amazingly.
- shayan 19y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=56825 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=56825 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=73791 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=73791 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=80647 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=80647 http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_s3_exceeds_9999_percent_uptime.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_s3_exceeds_9999_...
- rapind 19y agoI am. S3, SQS, and EC2. It's incredible from a cost perspective. I highly recommend you look into it.
- inovica 19y agoThanks. Going to play with it this weekend.
- DarrenStuart 19y agoI use s3 for backing up stuff and some graphic storage for a couple of my websites and love it. I use SGBPfox for firefox.
- socmoth 19y agoec2 + s3 is awesome. saved my but a lot.
- Goladus 19y agoIf you plan to use a small, fixed number of servers and run them 24/7, then EC2 probably will not save you much. It may even be more expensive. The price advantage works best for tasks that need flexibility. Sites that alternate between high demand and low demand, periodic or one-off processing intensive tasks where a 24/7 server is overkill-- that's where you really see the benefits of EC2.
- inovica 19y agoThanks to everyone who's posted. I've been reading about some negatives - slow response times. Has this been fixed or is it something that still happens still now?
- kirubakaran 19y agoI wrote this app to test EC2's speed. http://www.instantwordsearch.com/ http://www.instantwordsearch.com/ It gets a lot of visitors thru StumbleUpon and has held up pretty good in terms of speed - over a period of few months.
- sonink 19y agoIt really depends on what you are planning to do. 1. If you need a server for a longer term - or need to make serve web pages on demand then ec2 doesnt seem like a very good option - not that cheap, server might trip and you might loose state, and respnose times are not that great. 2. It is good for batch processing tasks that you can pile on multiple machines and then let go of the machines. You get work done faster (parallel) and is cheaper than any other option out there.