Comments on: Pinterest, Flipboard and Yelp tell how to save big bucks in the cloud

By: Ali Khajeh-Hosseini

Ali Khajeh-Hosseini — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:17:16 +0000

I blogged about Pinterest’s use of AWS S3 a while ago, their growth rate is crazy: http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/11/1/cost-analysis-tripadvisor-and-pinterest-costs-on-the-aws-clo.html

By: Matt Watson

Matt Watson — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 23:10:13 +0000

Great tips. Using spot instances on a daily basis would be a little nerve racking for some. Knowing your servers could be gone at anytime! htp://www.stackify.com

By: Matt Watson

Matt Watson — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 23:09:40 +0000

Great tips. Using spot instances on a daily basis would be a little nerve racking for some. Knowing your servers could be gone at anytime!

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By: Mayank Ahuja

Mayank Ahuja — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:06:55 +0000

In order to exploit the price differential between spot and on-demand instances, there are platforms coming up which provide a configurable solution. For example, I did this blog post for using Spot Instances with Hadoop ecosystem http://www.qubole.com/blog/index.php/hadoop-auto-scale-ec2-spot-instances/

By: Henley Wing

Henley Wing — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 15:17:56 +0000

Great point about not picking the “sexy” thing. I’ve used Redis and other memory key-value stores in the past, and it’s very easy to ignore it and let Redis do its thing. But before you know it, you’re using 100s of gigs of memory AND even more in storage b/c of persistence.

I’ve recently switched from using Redis to just using good ole PostgreSQL as my queue and key-value store. Makes development easier, and gets the job done.

By: Derrick Harris

Derrick Harris — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:32:08 +0000

I believe Ryan from Pinterest mentioned something about AWS auto-scaling getting better all the time –perhaps even on this front. Either way, I assume more fine-grained controls will come in time.

By: Drago

Drago — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:46:39 +0000

It would be great to have the ability to autoscale into spot instances built-in to the existing AWS API.

If AWS doesn’t provide the service, it could open a niche market for a would-be provider to offer it for the rest of us.

By: asp4

asp4 — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:28:37 +0000

Would be great to see more details about that “custom autoscaling” solution mentioned in the article. Even the built-in AWS autoscaler could hook-in to your preference toward spot instances — THAT would be something.

By: Vinod Shintre

Vinod Shintre — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 09:20:38 +0000

Not surprised with the proposed strategy but not sure if all companies have the muzzle like the big one’s to do it in-house , it has to be engraved in the engineering culture

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