On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:13 AM, Randall R Schulz
On Friday 25 April 2008 00:00, Mark V wrote:
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An illustration of the 'externalities' such an AMI can generate for the wider openSUSE community.... In the thread pointed to below Eric Hammond shows how firing up a Ubuntu desktop AMI allowed him to set up a bittorrent feed for the Ubuntu 8.04 (Herron) download rush... '70 peers and averages 25Mbps outbound (60Mbps peak)"... "it costs $0.12 per complete Hardy desktop ISO downloaded"
That may seem inexpensive, but one of the reasons I'm not rushing to switch my Web application deployment to EC2 is that is is not cheap. A minimal installation (which would be a little under-powered in the CPU department for my purposes) is $0.10 per unit-hour. That's $72 / month if run continuously. Realistically, I'd need the mid-range machine configuration, which costs twice as much!
Yes, an AMI approach is not ideal for all applications. The example above is similar to my use case - 'lumpy' or periodic demand. In my scenario I need processing done in 2-3 hours, so I can fire up N (where N is some large number) of AMI's and run each one only for the time required. The total time billed may will be N*2 or N*3 hours, but I'm not paying for the remaining 22-21 hours every single day. As in the above scenario demand for releases is also lumpy. Overall we agree one size does not fit all. What is the break even point will likely vary by application. Cheers Mark
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