Re:AWS Snowcone
by lukevp on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @01:18PM
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Is this the beginning of mini self-hosted clouds where the orchestration happens in a web UI but the compute/storage is local? Like a cheap version of Azure Stack? I get that you can’t keep the snowcone, but if you could, it would be a little VM host with local storage on your LAN that could let you run everything internal.
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I can't imagine that becoming more popular than just a drobo style device that runs its own software. Seems ridiculous to make your local hardware dependent on the cloud. (obviously this is common for iot devices but it seems that anything like this for enterprise or prosumer doesn't usually fly.
It looks like you can keep the Snowcone. One of the screenshots offers this option:
> "Perform local compute and storage workloads, without transferring data. You can order multiple devices in a cluster for increased durability and storage capacity."
At $6/day it's fairly expensive for non-temporary workloads.
They have a pricing example for this use case which includes the following caveat:
> First, you should contact AWS Sales to discuss private pricing for the long-term AWS Snowcone deployment
Re:AWS Snowcone
by E5JBK7UJPT on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @03:52PM
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Or you could pay the $2,000 lost device fee.
I'm guessing the devices marked as lost don't continue to function (at least not once they connect to the internet again)