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Switching to AWS Graviton slashed our infrastructure bill

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Re: Switching to AWS Graviton slashed our infrastructure bill

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Post by c7DJTLrn »

Cloud cost optimisation is underrated. In the companies I've worked in nobody has really given a shit (at least not under normal economic circumstances). In the industry there's a strong avoidance of ARM compute instances for no good reason. If I were building from scratch today I would definitely go with Graviton.

Re: Switching to AWS Graviton slashed our infrastructure bill

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Post by andrewstuart »

I found graviton to be a mixed bag. It was certainly extremely fast when using the very high end instances and I tested it successfully using a Rust based message queue system I was writing and it got some ridiculously fast number like 8 million messages a second, from memory, using the fastest possible graviton instance (this was about 18 months ago).

I did try to switch some of my database servers to it a couple of years ago and after random hangs, I gave up and went back to intel. I tried again further down the track and same thing - random hangs. I assume this sort of thing comes with a new architecture but I'd be hesitant to move any production infrastructure to it without extensive long term testing.

In the case of graviton based GPU instances I found that the GPU enabled software I wanted to use didn't work.

If you are comparing performance, I'd suggest buying a fast AMD machine and run it locally and compare performance - local servers tend to be much faster and cheaper than cloud. And if your application uses GPUs then if you possibly can then its very much in your interests to run local servers.

Re: Switching to AWS Graviton slashed our infrastructure bill

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Post by neodypsis »

andrewstuart wrote: post #4

I found graviton to be a mixed bag. It was certainly extremely fast when using the very high end instances and I tested it successfully using a Rust based message queue system I was writing and it got some ridiculously fast number like 8 million messages a second, from memory, using the fastest possible graviton instance (this was about 18 months ago). I did try to switch some of my database servers to it a couple of…

Which database are you using?

Re: Switching to AWS Graviton slashed our infrastructure bill

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Post by andrewstuart »

neodypsis wrote: post #5
andrewstuart wrote: post #4

I found graviton to be a mixed bag. It was certainly extremely fast when using the very high end instances and I tested it successfully using a Rust based message queue system I was writing and it got some ridiculously fast number like 8 million messages a second, from memory, using the fastest possible graviton instance (this was about 18 months ago). I did try to switch some of my database servers to it a couple of…

Which database are you using?

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Re: Switching to AWS Graviton slashed our infrastructure bill

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Post by hdjjhhvvhga »

c7DJTLrn wrote: post #2

Cloud cost optimisation is underrated. In the companies I've worked in nobody has really given a shit (at least not under normal economic circumstances). In the industry there's a strong avoidance of ARM compute instances for no good reason. If I were building from scratch today I would definitely go with Graviton.

If I started to build today, I'd definitely go for Hetzner Cloud. There is zero possibility that I get surprised by a large bill.

Re: Switching to AWS Graviton slashed our infrastructure bill

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Post by jack_pp »

hdjjhhvvhga wrote: post #7
c7DJTLrn wrote: post #2

Cloud cost optimisation is underrated. In the companies I've worked in nobody has really given a shit (at least not under normal economic circumstances). In the industry there's a strong avoidance of ARM compute instances for no good reason. If I were building from scratch today I would definitely go with Graviton.

If I started to build today, I'd definitely go for Hetzner Cloud. There is zero possibility that I get surprised by a large bill.

I feel it's currently in beta, I've tried it and apparently I can't create more than a few instances because my account is "too new", without a clear way to remove that limit so you're right, can't have a large bill if you can't even create 10 instances.
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