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Re: Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram

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Post by csarva » Mon, Apr 15, 2013, 3:02 PM UTC

scottvdp wrote: post #98

stevewilhelm wrote: post #36

I would really be interested in know a) if I had a copy of the Puppet scripts how long would it take get this server configuration up and running and b) how much would the AWS costs be per month?

A) That's a bit nuanced and depends on the application you are referring to (there are ~200 represented here), but if you had the scripts and the repos and built from a vanilla AMI, a box would boot and configure within a few minutes. We shortened the boot times greatly by using puppet to configure a template node which we then used to create a generic versioned AMI per autoscale environment and deployed with Asgard.…

Here are the numbers I pulled:

AMAZON $58,525.33 18-Oct-12

AMAZON WEB SERVICES $144,955.12 5-Nov-12

AMAZON WEB SERVICES $150,000.00 18-Dec-12 AMAZON WEB SERVICES $150,000.00 18-Dec-12 AMAZON WEB SERVICES $47,887.28 18-Dec-12 AMAZON WEB SERVICES $135.75 18-Dec-12

Re: Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram

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Post by miles932 » Mon, Apr 15, 2013, 5:58 PM UTC

scottvdp wrote: post #99

minimax wrote: post #21

Harper Reed and Scott VanDenPlas did a talk / Q&A at the Chicago AWS meetup group a few months ago. My hazy recollection of the salient points of the talk: 1) This represents a heterogenous set of services where the engineers in charge of each service were more-or-less free to use whatever technology stack they were most comfortable with. 2) Use puppet for provisioning everything. (There is some subtlety Scott went i…

The subtlety you are referring to in #2 is that we moved from puppet for deployments to puppet to configure template nodes. We baked AMIs from those template nodes and deployed those, drastically shortening our time from boot to serving traffic.

hugs

Re: Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram

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Post by miles932 » Mon, Apr 15, 2013, 6:03 PM UTC

parasubvert wrote: post #95

Really jazzed by CloudOpt, which I didn't know about. I had a multi-region architecture supporting AWS offshore development teams and HA between US-East & US-West, and this would have been a godsend. We had Windows Servers as dev workstations in Singapore and devs were based in India and Canada -- latency was actually fine to the desktop, and we used Amazon's internet connection to haul data back to US-East before hi…

Cloudopt rocked, but it's being renamed Union Bay Networks or something. http://www.linkedin.com/company/union-bay-networks

Re: Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram

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Post by miles932 » Mon, Apr 15, 2013, 6:04 PM UTC

harper wrote: post #90

leozh wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

haha me too!

me too

no, you're down front with the goofy glasses. answering most of the questions. being smart. i'm the one futzing with the mouse and asking awkward questions like a wank.

Re: Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram

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Post by saraid216 » Mon, Apr 15, 2013, 7:01 PM UTC

bonertruck wrote: post #82

saraid216 wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The problems faced by a campaign and the problems faced by a tech start up are inclusive but not all encompassing. I thought this was pretty obvious. > Every dollar you save on your server infrastructure is a cell phone plan for a lonely field office in Texas struggling to make a dent in a hopeless battle but they're there because they care. I have no idea what you're trying to convey here.

There is an existing fundraising infrastructure, an existing polling infrastructure, an existing media market infrastructure, all of these are highly successful and competitive and get candidates elected. When you're introducing sprawling new web based architectures into this mix you've got to prove the efficacy of every minute decision and improvement. There is very little trust.

So... you're saying that a tech startup does not have to contend with existing infrastructures? Do I have that correct?

Re: Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram

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Post by RKearney » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 10:35 PM UTC

pwthornton wrote: post #19

RKearney wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazon hosted all these servers for free?

All of you should know that this was paid with campaign dollars, not government funds. To pretend otherwise is an incredible indictment of our education system and an example of the assault on k-12 civics courses.

You severely misunderstood my comment.

That was a literal question, not rhetorical or sarcastic. I'm well aware of the difference between campaign funds and tax dollars.

nness didn't make it clear as to what "This" was in his "This was made by Amazon" so I was trying to get more detail to determine if "This" was just the picture or of "This" was the entire infrastructure. I was just curious if Amazon ran this farm for free.