SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
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SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
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Re: SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
#2What’s a good small cloud competitor to AWS? For teams that just need two AZs to get HA and your standard stuff like VMs, k8s, etc.
Re: SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
#3I think the obvious answer is there's not much demand, and keeping it "low" allows trickery and funny business with the virtualization layer (think: SAN, etc) that you can't do with "raw hardware speed".
Re: SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
#4What’s a good small cloud competitor to AWS? For teams that just need two AZs to get HA and your standard stuff like VMs, k8s, etc.
DigitalOcean has been great, have managed k8s and generally good bang for your buck
Re: SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
#5What’s a good small cloud competitor to AWS? For teams that just need two AZs to get HA and your standard stuff like VMs, k8s, etc.
Buy a server
Re: SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
#6What’s a good small cloud competitor to AWS? For teams that just need two AZs to get HA and your standard stuff like VMs, k8s, etc.
Digital Ocean. But they don’t have concept of multi az as far as I know. But they have multiple data centers in same region. But I am not aware if there is any private networking between DCs in the same region.
Re: SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
#7What’s a good small cloud competitor to AWS? For teams that just need two AZs to get HA and your standard stuff like VMs, k8s, etc.
Really needs more information for a good answer. How many req/s are you handling? Do you have dedicated devops? Write heavy, read heavy or pipeline/etl heavy? Is autoscaling a must or would you rather failure over a bank breaking cloud bill?
Re: SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
#8I think the obvious answer is there's not much demand, and keeping it "low" allows trickery and funny business with the virtualization layer (think: SAN, etc) that you can't do with "raw hardware speed".
Sure, but it does make me wonder what kind of speeds we are paying for if we can't even get raw hardware speeds...
Sounds like one more excuse for AWS to obfuscate any meaning in their billing structure and take control of the narrative.
How much are they getting away with by virtualization. (Think how banks use your money for loans and stuff)
You actually don't get to really see the internals other than IOPS which doesn't help when it's gatekept already.
Re: SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
#9I think the obvious answer is there's not much demand, and keeping it "low" allows trickery and funny business with the virtualization layer (think: SAN, etc) that you can't do with "raw hardware speed".
True but the funny business buys a lot of fault tolerance, and predictable performance if not maximum performance.
Re: SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
#10What’s a good small cloud competitor to AWS? For teams that just need two AZs to get HA and your standard stuff like VMs, k8s, etc.
Buy a server
I don't like this answer.
When I look at cloud, I get to think "finally! No more hardware to manage. No OS to manage". It's the best thing about the cloud, provided your workload is amenable to PaaS. It's great because I don't have to manage Windows or IIS. Microsoft does that part for me and significantly cheaper than it would be to employ me to do that work.