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Prime Day 2017: 12.9M DynamoDB requests per second

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Re: Prime Day 2017: 12.9M DynamoDB requests per second

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Post by dastbe »

lkrubner wrote: post #29

This is a good example of the stupidity of the normal rules that Hacker News enforces about article titles. I am glad they made an exception in this case. I never would have read this if the headline text had been "Prime Day 2017 – Powered by AWS". I did read the article, because in this case, Hacker News allowed the title to highlight what I would find interesting: the incredible performance of DynamoDB.

I don't think the rules actually say you can't edit titles. At best, they ask that you please use the original title unless misleading or linkbait.

You could argue that the original title is misleading, because you would've thought that it was some advertisement (though isn't anything touting large numbers a form of advertising?).

Re: Prime Day 2017: 12.9M DynamoDB requests per second

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Post by dastbe »

chimeracoder wrote: post #47
Artemis2 wrote: post #33

Something I appreciate very much with AWS is how much dogfooding Amazon does. In contrast, Google has said in the past that GCP is not used by Google engineers (and it shows, occasionally GCP goes down but actual Google products do not!). There is also no clear indication that Microsoft is actively using the public deployment of Azure.

> In contrast, Google has said in the past that GCP is not used by Google engineers (and it shows, occasionally GCP goes down but actual Google products do not!) Amazon (the shopping website) is generally online when AWS goes down, so that doesn't really indicate anything. Also, GCP is directly modeled after the infrastructure that Google uses to develop internally. I don't know if it's actually the same exact infras…

Netflix is also generally online when (parts of) AWS goes down, because they've architected their services to be resilient underlying failures (as Amazon and Google have too!). Netflix has blogged quite heavily about this, for example in a relatively recent blog about multi-region redundancy[0].

[0] https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/global-cloud-active-acti...

Re: Prime Day 2017: 12.9M DynamoDB requests per second

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Post by didibus »

chimeracoder wrote: post #47
Artemis2 wrote: post #33

Something I appreciate very much with AWS is how much dogfooding Amazon does. In contrast, Google has said in the past that GCP is not used by Google engineers (and it shows, occasionally GCP goes down but actual Google products do not!). There is also no clear indication that Microsoft is actively using the public deployment of Azure.

> In contrast, Google has said in the past that GCP is not used by Google engineers (and it shows, occasionally GCP goes down but actual Google products do not!) Amazon (the shopping website) is generally online when AWS goes down, so that doesn't really indicate anything. Also, GCP is directly modeled after the infrastructure that Google uses to develop internally. I don't know if it's actually the same exact infras…

AWS never went down. What goes down occasionally are subset of its services in limited regions. And sometimes that does impact the amazon.com website also. Just not every aspect of it.

Re: Prime Day 2017: 12.9M DynamoDB requests per second

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Post by hobofan »

pentelian wrote: post #26

When I read that I thought holy heck... on DynamoBD, if it's not a case study about Amazon then that company is in serious financial trouble.

If the AWS cost estimator is not broken, it wouldn't even be _crazy_ expensive at ~8mio/month. Snap with 1 billion committed to AWS over the next 5 years could definitely come close to the same order of magnitude on a consistent basis.

Re: Prime Day 2017: 12.9M DynamoDB requests per second

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Post by jjeaff »

dx034 wrote: post #48
pentelian wrote: post #26

When I read that I thought holy heck... on DynamoBD, if it's not a case study about Amazon then that company is in serious financial trouble.

I'm sure that any external client using >1bn queries per day would get a very different pricing from the one advertised.

I have heard that the price is the price for AWS and that the small guys pay the same as the biggest ones. But I have no evidence to back that up.

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Post by jjeaff »

patrickxb wrote: post #55

Must be nice if you don't have to pay for it...

If they operate like lots of other big corps, I would think the retail arm actually would have to pay AWS for the service. Obviously zero sum, but you want can't know your true profit and loss for individual business units if you don't.

Re: Prime Day 2017: 12.9M DynamoDB requests per second

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Post by sitepodmatt »

londons_explore wrote: post #60
sitepodmatt wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this will gradually change. Kubernetes came out of all the internal learning after all, I would be surprised if they aren't putting new greenfield stuff on GCP and other Google Cloud products.

This is true for smaller projects. Big projects are still built out of GCP mostly for cost reasons - google doesn't give itself a discount on gcp

Did you mean to say 'still not built out of'?
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