EC2 now out of limited beta; four-core and eight-core instances now available

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/ann.jspa?annID=241

by dfranke • 19 years ago

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darius• 19 years ago

Way to go! Really good news.

dfranke3• 19 years ago

The 1.7TB drive on the extra-large instance seems strange to me. Who needs that much non-persistent storage?

jsjenkins168• 19 years ago

Is the instance storage faster? I know there is discernible latency with file transfer between EC2 and S3. Having faster local storage for each instance could be very beneficial for swap space or temp tables, if your servers need a lot of it.

dfranke3• 19 years ago

I still can't imagine needing that much temporary space and yet being small enough that using EC2 is still economical.

wmf2• 19 years ago

Obviously people won't use it as temp space; they'll use it to store databases and replicate them on multiple instances for reliability.

dfranke3• 19 years ago

That still sounds unwise. One glitch slightly worse than the one from last week and you're badly screwed.

zach• 19 years ago

RenderMan does. The extra-large instance would be a good choice for rendering movie-quality 3D graphics.

ajkates• 19 years ago

Some shortcomings that still irk me.

http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=329797&th...

wmf2• 19 years ago

Yes, it looks like Amazon has been solving the easy problems (paid AMIs, bigger instances) first, while the hard problems will be addressed later. But given that it took a year or so to add large instances, I wonder when load balancing and storage will be improved.

EC2 now out of limited beta; four-core and eight-core instances now available

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