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| Posted by Steven F, 03-13-2011, 04:56 PM |
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Is Amazon EC2 good? I'm looking for a VERY good network at a decent price.
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| Posted by tchen, 03-13-2011, 08:04 PM |
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It's ok. But it's also really expensive for what it is. If you're planning on running a single instance in EC2, then forget it. Anything else is better.
If you're doing high-throughput web, you're better off with the EC2 instances doing the computational work, and offloading as much as you can onto a edge CDN like Akamai. Medium webs can get away with EC2+CloudFront.
For what its worth, I love EC2 and there are a lot of real-world problems I would recommend it for. However, I do find myself recommending people to avoid it more just because they come at it like a VPS.
What did you want to use it for?
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| Posted by Steven F, 03-13-2011, 08:40 PM |
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What about their network? How good is it? I need it for a quick loading site. Load time is crucial and it needs to be VERY quick.
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| Posted by tchen, 03-13-2011, 09:30 PM |
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I was talking about the network. Here are numbers.
100mb Cachefly to instance - 31.2MB/s
Instance to external VPSx3 - 6.64MB/s, 1.66MB/s, 2.47MB/s
Get YSlow, and a CDN if you need your page to load VERY quick. EC2 is not for that.
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| Posted by Vasilios, 03-14-2011, 06:30 PM |
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If you prefer quick 'n easy scaling, then Amazon EC2 is got you.
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