This blog is a space for my thoughts, ideas, concept development, observed oddities exploration but mainly for much needed RANTING space from a frustrated penguin against the powers that be. Long live the yellow beak!
AWS reserved instances – when is it cheaper?
Few months ago AWS published a new reserved instances proposition. While there’s a lot of data on their web site it escapes me why would they leave out an important piece of information: When do the reserved instance deals become cheaper than standard allocation? Below is a graph for the yearly costs of all instance types, [...]
IAAS CPU bursts – Can it be bad?
Rackspace, in its cloud servers service, generously gives hosted machines unallocated CPU cycles, above the guaranteed levels (reference). In a study I’m conducting these days, comparing performance of the biggest IAAS providers, this innocent feature revealed itself very clearly. Comparing the smallest instances of both EC2 and Rackspace CPU benchmarks, and normalizing to benchmark points [...]
IAAS Providers – Feature Comparison Chart
A simple feature chart of Amazon EC2, GoGrid and Rackspace virtual servers (A, G and R in the chart, respectively). The BogoScore at the end is just the count of supported features, it doesn’t mean much but I just had to do it. Black squares are supported, white are not and grey are partly supported.
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