Is this really an AWS issue? Sounds like you were just burning CPU cycles, which is not AWS related. WebSockets makes it sound like it was a data transfer or API gateway cost.
If I said that "childbirth cost us 5000 on our <hospital name> bill", you assume the issue is with the hospital.
The idea that clearer titles are just babying some class of people is perverse.
Titles are the foremost means of deciding what to read, for anyone of any sophistication. Clearer titles benefit everyone.
The subject matter is meaningful to more than AWS users, but non-AWS users are going to be less likely to read it based on the title.
I doubt they would have even noticed this outrageous cost if they were running on bare-metal Xeons or Ryzen colo'd servers. You can rent real 44-core Xeon servers for like, $250/month.
So yes, it's an AWS issue.
You can rent real 44-core Xeon servers for like, $250/month.
I see "AMD EPYC 7502P 32-Core" for 236 EUR per month. Can you tell me where you see 48c/96t?
EDIT
I found it! Unbelievable that it is so cheap.
https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/#cores_threads_...
GCP exposes their cpu models, and they have some Haswell and Broadwell lithographies in service.
Thats a 10+ year old part, for those paying attention.
I used to work for a company that rented lots of hetzner boxes. Consumer grade hardware with frequent disk failures was just what we excepted for saving a buck.
Anyway, depending on individual nodes to always be up for reliability is incredibly foolhardy. Things can happen, cloud isn't magic, I’ve had instances become unrecoverable. Though it is rare.
So, I still don’t understand the point, that was not exactly relevant to what I said.
AWS: E5-2680 v4 (2016)
Hetzner: Ryzen 5 (2019)
the AWS one is some emulated block device, no idea what it is, other than it's 20x slower
Hetzner isn't the best provider in the world, but it's also not as bad as you say they are. They're not just renting old servers.
[0]https://instances.vantage.sh/aws/ec2/c8g.12xlarge?region=us-... [1]https://portal.colocrossing.com/register/order/service/480 [2]https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/8305329 [3]https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-xeon-e5-2699-...
If I try to match the actual machine. 16G ram. A rough estimate is that their Xeon E3-1240 would be ~2 AWS vCPU. So an r6g.large is the instance that would roughly match this one. Add 500G disk + 1 Gbps to/from the internet and ... monthly cost 3,700 USD.
Without any disk and without any data transfer (which would be unusable) it's still ~80USD. Maybe you could create a bootable image that calculates primes.
These are still not the same thing, I get it, but ... it's safe to say you cannot get anything remotely comparable on AWS. You can only get a different thing for way more money.
(made estimates on https://calculator.aws/ )
125 MB per second × 60 seconds per minute × 60 minutes per hour × 24 hours per day x 30 days = 324 TB?
If you want 1 Gbps unmetered colo pricing, AWS is not competitive. So set up your video streaming service elsewhere :-)
https://portal.colocrossing.com/register/order/service/480 offers unmetered for $2,500 additional per month, for the record.
If you have high bandwidth needs on AWS you can use AWS Lightsail, which has some discounted transfer rates.
That's not dedicated 48 cores, it's 48 "vCPUs". There are probably 1,000 other EC2 instances running on those cores stealing all the CPU cycles. You might get 4 cores of actual compute throughput. Which is what I was saying
In fact, you can even get a small discount with the -flex series, if you're willing to compromise slightly. (Small discount for 100% of performance 95% of the time).