Things You Should Know About AWS
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Things You Should Know About AWS
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#2These are more "tricks on optimizing AWS usage" than things to know "about" AWS.
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#3Actually I was wondering if there is any experience/benchmarks about Amazon high-performance instances.
anyone already used this ?
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#4This is great and all, but I'd love to see a community wiki / discussion area for AWS tips, tricks, and gotchas. Something like Quora crossed with Wikipedia, just for AWS.
Is anyone aware of such a thing? If not, any advice for starting one?
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#5Actually I was wondering if there is any experience/benchmarks about Amazon high-performance instances. anyone already used this ?
I am using a number of high-performance instances - cc2.8xlarge machines for EMR jobs, and cr1.8xlarge machines for analytics databases. From my testing:
- Running EMR jobs on cc2.8xlarge machines as spot instances is a great way to get a LOT of computer power very cheaply. Because our jobs are periodic we run both Core and Task as spots and simply retry the job if our machines get terminated. I did a lot of benchmarking and found that a small number of cc2.8xlarge machines out-performs and is cheaper than a large number of lesser instances (and I tried most of the lesser machines). In us-west-2 it's very uncommon to lose our instances, unlike us-east-1 which has major price fluctuations (this is true for all types of spot instance).
- The cr1.8xlarge has fantastic performance, relative to the rest of the AWS machines. It's also very expensive compared to the cost of hardware or a similar solution on another cloud provider. Since we're fully integrated with AWS and don't want to run our own hardware we're sucking up the cost for now, but it's definitely a sore-point in our budget. The cr1.8xlarge is also all-round a better machine than the hi.4xlarge, which has a lot of disk but is pitiful in terms of CPU.
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#6Actually I was wondering if there is any experience/benchmarks about Amazon high-performance instances. anyone already used this ?
I am using a number of high-performance instances - cc2.8xlarge machines for EMR jobs, and cr1.8xlarge machines for analytics databases. From my testing: - Running EMR jobs on cc2.8xlarge machines as spot instances is a great way to get a LOT of computer power very cheaply. Because our jobs are periodic we run both Core and Task as spots and simply retry the job if our machines get terminated. I did a lot of benchmar…
great stuff!
thanks for sharing.
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#7What is the 'aws' command in example #2? Is that a Ruby/Python/other script released by Amazon or a 3rd party?
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#8What is the 'aws' command in example #2? Is that a Ruby/Python/other script released by Amazon or a 3rd party?
That's the AWS CLI (Command Line Interface), available at http://aws.amazon.com/cli/ .
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#9This is great and all, but I'd love to see a community wiki / discussion area for AWS tips, tricks, and gotchas. Something like Quora crossed with Wikipedia, just for AWS. Is anyone aware of such a thing? If not, any advice for starting one?
Sounds like something ideal for a StackExchange site.