As part of a project to offset usage spikes by auto spinning up EC2 instances on the fly for added computing power during high traffic periods, I needed to answer the question how fast could I really spin up an EC2 instance. So after running several tests against small and large EC2 instances running a base CentOS 5.3 AMI this is what I found:
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Archive for April, 2009
How long does it take to launch an Amazon EC2 instance?
I had a dream last night that I needed to fix the US Air Forces Stratum 1 server which had a bum Stratum 0 card in order for all their Stratum 2 servers to sync over NTP correctly. Apparently in my dream the world would come to an end, if I couldn’t fix the issue! Somewhere along the lines of things launching that shouldn’t as a result of the time glitch. Why can’t I have normal dreams of having super powers like the ability to fly instead?
It’s that time of year when I try to raise some $ for a good cause the National Multiple Sclerosis Society! You can help donate at http://www.mswalk.com/phil
On April 26 at LEGOLAND, I will be joining thousands of walkers at Walk MS 2009,
benefiting the Pacific South Coast Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
What is The Throughput For Pushing Files to Amazon S3?
So recently I wanted to test how fast it would take to push a large amount of data into the Amazon S3 Cloud Computing Service. I already had an idea of the throughput, but wanted to make sure with a large amount of data over time my assumption was correct.
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