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I've seen and fought issues with hanging and/or stalling EC2 instances, and the decision was made to move to physical hardware - it was one of those tradeoff ch
by adrianpike 12y ago
I've seen and fought issues with hanging and/or stalling EC2 instances, and the decision was made to move to physical hardware - it was one of those tradeoff choices you have to make about paying N dollars to throw money at hardware vs. M dollars at person-hours to investigate.
It's definitely kicking the can down the road (eventually you have to build such that failing infrastructure is transparent to your eng team), but I still think it was the right decision at the time. YMMV obviously. :)
- makeitsuckless 12y agoI've had the odd problem with hanging/stalling instances before I learned to design for the cloud. Now those instances automatically get replaced with new ones and nobody would even notice if I didn't pipe the notice through to Slack. Of course, this only works if whatever you use it for allows for this. However, in most cases not using EC2 as a stateless throwaway computing resources is simply a matter of bad infrastructure design.