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OVH has a monster data center there too. The region has very cheap power due to a lot of hydroelectric available.
OVH is actually located right inside a hydro dam about 15 minutes away from the city: http://www.hydroquebec.com/visit/monteregie/beauharnois.html
The prices seem to have a 14% roughly increase compared to US East. I also assume that this also means Canadian tax is going to start being added onto all the prices?
This announcement actually broke some code of mine today. I have a scheduled AWS Lambda function that downloads the current EC2 Price List every hour to make some real-time cost savings calculations for stopped resources. The addition of the Canada prices to that file made it just a bit too large for the memory assigned to the function, causing a silent "Process exited without completing request" crash. Good times.
I love the idea, and the fact that you actually implemented it. :)
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Any idea what would a data center pay per year for cooling? Would it be worthwhile to build in a cooler location where cooling would be free in the winter? And maybe even (somehow) freeze water in the winter and melt it in the summer to provide additional "free" cooling? (Might be a bit of a stretch)
Now for cooling, the montreal region has subzero temps from lateish november to somthing like almost april... Apparently Wikipedia has a half decent article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_in_Canada Not sure about that freeze water in the winter and use it in the summer idea at such a low latitude... But yes, using an artificial lake (or even a real one... given the population does not go bersek about prot…
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According to [1] it seems there are 2 az. 1: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/
S3, Dynamo and some other servicea always have three AZs, sometimes they only expose 2 EC2 AZs to save money in new/small regions. James Hamilton just announced that they were going to stop doing this but I guess this region was already under construction.
This announcement actually broke some code of mine today. I have a scheduled AWS Lambda function that downloads the current EC2 Price List every hour to make some real-time cost savings calculations for stopped resources. The addition of the Canada prices to that file made it just a bit too large for the memory assigned to the function, causing a silent "Process exited without completing request" crash. Good times.
Purely out of curiosity; are you allowed to share how much time this cost you to make, and how much money / month it saves you? I love the idea, and the fact that you actually implemented it. :)
- A session my boss did at re:Invent that touches on some of our cloud management tools, including Hanover [0]
- A blog post I did back when we were putting this together that explains our approach to calculating EC2 prices for live instances (it's not as easy as you would think/hope) [1]
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epx_32c3c6s&feature=youtu.be [1] https://forrestbrazeal.com/2016/09/25/adventures-in-aws-unde...
sure don't have to worry about keeping the servers cool eh? :)
The location will help, but it's not like Montreal is in the frozen tundra. It's about 30 miles from the border with Vermont. All of Washington state is north of Montreal.