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Re: AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support

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Post by kolev »

kolev wrote: post #29
nickbauman wrote: post #14

Funny. Google App Engine auto scaled from day one.

People still use Google AppEngine with its outrageous pricing?

Thanks for the downvote, but my experience is that for a relatively small project we started to receive $200+ monthly bills and had to switch to EC2.

Re: AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support

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Post by kolev »

jeffbarr wrote: post #28
kolev wrote: post #27

I actually hate Amazon for exposing these features - now, my boss will be mucking around with them! As a DevOps guy, nothing beats AWS CLI and CloudFormation!

That's what IAM is for. Create a playground for your boss and let him or her muck around in safety.

Well, you tell my boss that he shouldn't be a full admin. :)

Re: AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support

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Post by legohead »

lreeves wrote: post #2

It always struck me as odd that one of the original defining features of AWS never had a web interface. Maybe they were making it API-only to protect people from shooting themselves in the foot with exorbitant bills. Regardless through I'm really glad to see this finally!

Amazon rolls out all their features as CLI first, then build a web interface later. Although they have taken their time with this particular feature.

Re: AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support

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Post by iampims »

kolev wrote: post #31
kolev wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People still use Google AppEngine with its outrageous pricing?

Thanks for the downvote, but my experience is that for a relatively small project we started to receive $200+ monthly bills and had to switch to EC2.

What was costing you $200+ monthly bills? CPU? Storage? Datastore operations?

Re: AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support

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Post by kolev »

kolev wrote: post #31
kolev wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People still use Google AppEngine with its outrageous pricing?

Thanks for the downvote, but my experience is that for a relatively small project we started to receive $200+ monthly bills and had to switch to EC2.

Very small, but frequent DB updates. I wasn't responsible for the software, but simply put, it was a backend for a not-so-popular Chrome extension, which was doing authentication and persisting some state (a few integers). I'm sure the architecture could've been optimized specifically for AppEngine to reduce the cost, but why do you need to invest so much effort in optimizing something so basic that works just fine on EC2 m1.small or Digital Ocean for few bucks per month?

Re: AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support

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Post by switch007 »

kolev wrote: post #32
jeffbarr wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what IAM is for. Create a playground for your boss and let him or her muck around in safety.

Well, you tell my boss that he shouldn't be a full admin. :)

How about trying to create a change management process (supported by some time that someone other than your boss made a disastrous change)? Get him on board about how important that process is, especially when working in a team and something as critical as AWS. hint hint..

Re: AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support

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Post by kolev »

switch007 wrote: post #36
kolev wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, you tell my boss that he shouldn't be a full admin. :)

How about trying to create a change management process (supported by some time that someone other than your boss made a disastrous change)? Get him on board about how important that process is, especially when working in a team and something as critical as AWS. hint hint..

That's already in place. I personally use the Web Console as a read-only tool, but it's hard to keep a manager with past developer background away from poking around - policies are for the mere mortals! :)

Re: AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support

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Post by arturhoo »

dilithiumhe3 wrote: post #24
zwily wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried the new c3 instances?

For the last 2 days i have a script that is trying to allocate a c3 instance with no luck. AWS is having crazy capacity problems in us-east (all zones).

We are also getting multiple 500 ServerInternalErrors trying to allocate them.

Re: AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support

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Post by ceejayoz »

e1g wrote: post #25
zerop wrote: post #18

I would rather like to see better CPU performance first then auto-scale. Awful CPU performance is what keeping me away from EC2, trying linode nowadays..

The new C3.Large is cheaper than M1.Large (and only marginally more expensive than the old M1.Medium), but its CPU performance is roughly twice as good. Swapping over made a notable difference for our web nodes (perhaps 30-40% reduction in server time for the web-facing tier). C3's instance-level SSD drives are a very nice touch as well.

It should be noted, though, that the c3.large has half the RAM of the m1.large.

Re: AWS Management Console - Auto Scaling Support

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Post by socialist_coder »

dilithiumhe3 wrote: post #24
zwily wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried the new c3 instances?

For the last 2 days i have a script that is trying to allocate a c3 instance with no luck. AWS is having crazy capacity problems in us-east (all zones).

in my experince its only us-east-1a that is having problems. i can get instances in b, c, and d no problem.

c3.large instances are awesome!

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