Just out of curiosity, why would one choose AWS over Digital Ocean? Isn't DO considerably cheaper?
Digital Ocean isn't PCI compliant. http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea...
AWS is.
Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
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Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you even do anything without using EBS?
Well, you break your services out onto stateless and stateful machines. After that, you make sure that each of your stateful services is resilient to individual node failure. I prefer to believe that if you can't roll your entire infrastructure over to new nodes monthly then you're unprepared for the eventual outage of a stateful service. Most databases have replication but you need to make sure that the characterist…
And you do what for loadbalancing?
Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly - how can I run a database server without EBS?
Run multiple replicas with synchronous replication. For Postgres see: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Synchronous_replication This way you should be able to tolerate failure of a single instance without losing data.
But the thing people are needlessly concerned about with EBS is full datacenter failure. Which is just as much a problem for those EC2 instances. Synchronous replication to another data center is a massive performance killer.
Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#54I see that the prices on the M3 instances dropped a bit more than the prices on the M1 instances did, so they are encouraging us customers even more to move from the older HHD based instances to the newer, faster SSD based instances.
The m3 instances were already cheaper than the m1 before (as well as faster). I assume they want to get rid of the old hardware.
Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
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#56The most striking thing to me is that they seem to be aggressively motivating people to longer reservations. For RDS they only dropped prices for on-demand (which is still expensive) and 3 year, heavy utilization instances.
Where do you see the new pricing for RDS?
Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#57Remember, you get what (the reliability, service) you pay for. And what happens when AWS is no longer a revenue source? Shareholder (owner)'s decision: cut it.
In my experience, unless you are paying for EC2 service in the form of a support plan then there is no service to speak of.
Not a big deal if you are running a business but pretty significant ($588/year) if you are doing personal dev work.
Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#58I would be so happy if Heroku passed along these price cuts to their customers, but based on past AWS price cuts, I'm not holding my breath.
They might (a little) in that this 'friction' is exactly the sort of plain bottom-line info to get people to make the step to move off of heroku and on to raw EC2 (or other more infrastructure based setups).
Heroku's kind of in a sweet spot.
They already charge an immense premium over your own fleet of micro to large instances, but by the time you rack up enough dynos for it to make sense to spend the necessary weeks migrating your infrastructure there's a good chance that replicating the environment with your own in house version (30+ instances?) is non trivial enough to be scary.
Once you're over a handful of dynos, the sunk costs and uncertainty will keep you there until it becomes totally ludicrous.
Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#59Does anyone know if these pricing changes are retroactive for customers that have already purchased the reserved instances?
Re: Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
#60The most striking thing to me is that they seem to be aggressively motivating people to longer reservations. For RDS they only dropped prices for on-demand (which is still expensive) and 3 year, heavy utilization instances.
Where do you see the new pricing for RDS?