Re: Amazon High I/O instances - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vincent Veyron
Subject Re: Amazon High I/O instances
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Msg-id 1345653851.2406.52.camel@asus-1001PX.home
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In response to Re: Amazon High I/O instances  (Craig Ringer <ringerc@ringerc.id.au>)
Responses Re: Amazon High I/O instances  (Sébastien Lorion <sl@thestrangefactory.com>)
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Le mercredi 22 août 2012 à 13:15 +0800, Craig Ringer a écrit :

> He appears to be suggesting that buying access to real hardware in a
> datacenter (if not buying the hardware yourself) is more cost effective
> and easier to manage than using "cloud" style services with more
> transient hosts like EC2 offers. At least that's how I understood it.

Hi Craig,

Actually, my comments about costs were misleading : I simply reacted to
the fact that the OP wanted to test his application for high
performance, and thought that it would be easier with bare metal rather
than with AWS, because you have less parameters to control this way.

Also, I'll admit that I jumped the gun without reading about the SSD
offer by Amazon. Still, I would test first with a machine that I
control, but it maybe that Sébastien already did that.

I am curious to know what kind of application requires 10s to 100s of
instances with a PostgreSQL database, because that could get unwieldy
with big data (which I assumed from the high performance specification)

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Vincent Veyron
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