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Re: Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison

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Post by jlgreco »

tszming wrote: post #4

Need to give a warning next to the t1.micro instance e.g. only for short bursts, extreme throttling afterward

Micros are pretty fantastic for non-commercial use. If I'm testing some stuff out at home and need a couple different machines I can either fire up some VMs.. but I'm on a netbook.. or I can almost instantly just pull up a couple EC2 micro instances for the amount of money I find under the couch cushion next to me.

I would never dream of trying to build anything meant to stick around and make me money on one though of course.

Re: Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison

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Post by pkh80 »

sorenbs wrote: post #60
moonboots wrote: post #16

There has been a lot of discussion on HN about dedicated hosting at Hetzner vs Amazon, and while they offer different pros and cons, Amazon appears to be a lot more expensive for comparable or even worse specs. Here's a comparison of two servers that have roughly comparable specs, Amazon High-Memory Double Extra Large and Hetzner ex8s: cpu: hetzner: Intel Xeon E3-1275 (4 physical cores) ec2: 4 virtual cores (13 "ecus…

The single biggest obstacle when using aws is EBS. It offers sub par and unpredictable io, making it near impossible to operate a traditional SQL DB at any significant load. This is the problem that pushed us to explore mongodb two years ago, and i believe this is a major driver for noSQL adoption in startups.

What about using Amazon's built-in database services (RDS, DynamoDB) instead?

Re: Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison

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Post by UnoriginalGuy »

One issue I've had with EC2 is frankly the fact that you have less freedom. On either a VPS or a dedicated server you normally have complete control over the firewall (be-it either a hardware firewall or software).

On EC2 you have no way of putting yourself in the DMZ, and the "Security Groups" only allow you to open up UDP or TCP forwarding. You cannot configure any other type of protocol/traffic and cannot bypass it entirely.

Re: Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison

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Post by akosednar »

slig wrote: post #69
moonboots wrote: post #16

There has been a lot of discussion on HN about dedicated hosting at Hetzner vs Amazon, and while they offer different pros and cons, Amazon appears to be a lot more expensive for comparable or even worse specs. Here's a comparison of two servers that have roughly comparable specs, Amazon High-Memory Double Extra Large and Hetzner ex8s: cpu: hetzner: Intel Xeon E3-1275 (4 physical cores) ec2: 4 virtual cores (13 "ecus…

Can anyone recommend a service/person that can properly install a virtualization service on a Hetzner server?

What virtualization did you need? Proxmox can be installed via the robot interface. Citrix Xen can be installed using a remote install.

Re: Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison

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Post by MrMike »

flyt wrote: post #32
jeffbarr wrote: post #5

Here's a suggestion for a big improvement: Pick apart the EC2 pricing page ( http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ ) and find the URLs to the JSON (e.g. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ri-light-linux.json ) and build something that's totally dynamic. Although the URLs and the formats aren't an official AWS API, I think it is pretty safe to count on them for an application like this.

Dear person that works at Amazon Web Services: please just build this for the community. ec2instances.info is a much better resource than the existing pricing page and the calculator is entirely too much for many uses/discussions. thanks. edit: or copy this: http://mikekhristo.com/ec2-ondemand-vs-reserved-instance-sav...

Or you can just ask me to make whatever changes you want...

Re: Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison

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Post by MrMike »

mthreat wrote: post #51
jeffbarr wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's really nice. Did you make it?

I didn't - the author's name is on the page though. I use it so often, I almost keep it in a dedicated browser tab.

Glad it's working out for you... let me know if you want any changes

Re: Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison

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Post by rehack »

taligent wrote: post #68
sorenbs wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reserved instances are not tied to a specific machine. If you buy say 5 reserved instances of a specific server type, you have a pool of servers that can run at a discount. IE if you decide your DB needs to go on a bigger box you can apply the reserved instance discount to some of your application servers or whatever.

They are tied to the availability zone though. Not a big deal if you are from the US but if you are from Australia for example then you wouldn't be able to take advantage of a Sydney availability zone if it become available (as it is rumored).

Yes, they are tied to a availability zone. Another thing I found confusing them is the choice of platform e.g. there is Linux and Linux VPC, after some searching I figured I should just choose Linux.

Re: Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison

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Post by [deleted] »

taligent wrote: post #68
sorenbs wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reserved instances are not tied to a specific machine. If you buy say 5 reserved instances of a specific server type, you have a pool of servers that can run at a discount. IE if you decide your DB needs to go on a bigger box you can apply the reserved instance discount to some of your application servers or whatever.

They are tied to the availability zone though. Not a big deal if you are from the US but if you are from Australia for example then you wouldn't be able to take advantage of a Sydney availability zone if it become available (as it is rumored).

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