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People seem to forget that EC2 stands for Elastic Cloud Compute. Emphasis on elastic. If you you use the Elastic Cloud Compute in a non-elastic manner then you'
by forrestthewoods 12y ago
People seem to forget that EC2 stands for Elastic Cloud Compute. Emphasis on elastic. If you you use the Elastic Cloud Compute in a non-elastic manner then you're doing it wrong. If you need dedicated hardware then there are many services that specialize in precisely that.
(Yes I know this is Azure not EC2. The point remains.)
- dekhn 12y agoThere's a very good value in having a big fat database machine which is next to a nice, elastic pool of servers as well as other services, like block storage. You pay for collocation with your other services.
- nirvdrum 12y agoI think that ship has sailed. Even Amazon offers heavy reserved instances, which are expected to be on 24/7 (you pay for every hour in the month even if you're not running a machine).
- bdcravens 12y agoYes, but occasionally they will retire instances, and notify you. If you don't spin it up as another instance, well, sucks to be you when it disappears. Actually pretty simple, but you can't just set it and forget it; you have to be prepared for some degree of elasticity. Also note that reserved instances don't require you to pay for 24 hours X 30 days. It just gives you the right to pay a lower rate for the capacity you've reserved.
- jwilliams 12y agoTrue, although they used to in specific cases - the AWS "heavy utilization" reservations would be charged if you had the server running or not.