At first glance I was pretty disappointed that I just reserved all my t1's last week. After seeing that the new instances are EBS only, I don't regret that decision.
It will be interesting to see how these new boxes handle after the CPU burst is over. T1 micro's were notoriously unreliable because of the CPU limitations.
These ones have specified baseline performance, and even that shouldn't be too much slower than the maximum performance on the instances they are replacing. So that plus the accumulation of credits over the entire day rather than a much smaller period for the old micro should make things much better.
True, but the m1.small had instance storage as an option. Since there is no m3.small and EBS is out of the question, it looks like I'll be moving my m1.smalls to m3.mediums.
Why is EBS out of the question? Do you have an horror story to share? :)
I agree there are some specific uses cases ideally suited for ephemeral storage. But in most cases EBS gives you quicker provisioning times, snapshotting and of course persistance.
In the past, performance and reliability sucked but AFAIK this is not an issue anymore, especially with the new General Purpose (SSD backed) EBS volumes.
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At first glance I was pretty disappointed that I just reserved all my t1's last week. After seeing that the new instances are EBS only, I don't regret that decision.
It will be interesting to see how these new boxes handle after the CPU burst is over. T1 micro's were notoriously unreliable because of the CPU limitations.
These ones have specified baseline performance, and even that shouldn't be too much slower than the maximum performance on the instances they are replacing. So that plus the accumulation of credits over the entire day rather than a much smaller period for the old micro should make things much better.
AFAIK, last generation t1.micro instances were also EBS-only.
True, but the m1.small had instance storage as an option. Since there is no m3.small and EBS is out of the question, it looks like I'll be moving my m1.smalls to m3.mediums.
Why is EBS out of the question? Do you have an horror story to share? :)
I agree there are some specific uses cases ideally suited for ephemeral storage. But in most cases EBS gives you quicker provisioning times, snapshotting and of course persistance. In the past, performance and reliability sucked but AFAIK this is not an issue anymore, especially with the new General Purpose (SSD backed) EBS volumes.