Re:We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billin...
by kapilvt on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @11:25AM
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wrt to aws, there's also the option of building out with serverless tech, which is a dramatic cost reduction (not paying for idle) and ideally scaled for usage to business model/revenue. cloud portability suffers but I've found for an ha setup, its a dramatic cost savings (10x) while getting traction for a service. I've seen that transformation bear out in many enterprise companies. As an example I built out https://awsapichanges.info and run it for less then a dollar month with fargate spot, s3, etc. Just saying ymmv depending on how you want to build/design your app's use of infra resources.
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Re:We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billin...
by vidarh on Thursday February 27, 2020 @07:48AM
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It really isn't a dramatic cost reduction for most people, as most people simply don't have sufficiently large difference between base load and peak. I love the concept of serverless, but I'm not seeing it as a cost savings measure for the most part, but as a simplification of architecture.