Amazon announced a couple of cool new things this morning. Standard and High CPU Linux/UNIX EC2 instances hourly prices in the US and Europe have dropped by 15% and will go into effect November 1st. 2 new types of EC2 instance is now available called “High-Memory”. High-Memory Instances are designed to be used with memory-intensive workloads such as databases, caching, and rendering, and are optimized for low-latency, high-throughput performance.
* Double Extra Large: 34.2 GB memory, 13 ECU (4 virtual cores with 3.25 ECU each), 850 GB storage, 64-bit platform ($1.20 per hour)
* Quadruple Extra Large: 68.4 GB memory, 26 ECU (8 virtual cores with 3.25 ECU each), 1690 GB storage, 64-bit platform ($2.40 per hour)
Also Amazon entered it’s Relational Database Service into public beta. This new service makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale MySQL relational databases in the cloud via simple API calls.
* Simple to Deploy – Quickly create a new production-ready relational database with a simple API call.
* Managed – Amazon RDS handles generic, time-consuming database management tasks, such as patch management and backup.
* Compatible – All of your existing MySQL database tools, applications, and drivers will still work.
* Scalable – With a simple API call you can scale the compute and storage resources available to your database to meet your business needs and application load.
* Reliable – Amazon RDS runs on the same highly reliable infrastructure used by other Amazon Web Services. Amazon RDS also gives you additional peace of mind by providing an automated database backup facility.
* Inexpensive – You pay very low rates and only for the resources you actually consume. There are no long-term contracts or up-front commitments to use Amazon RDS.
3 responses so far ↓
1 JohnG // Nov 20, 2009 at 10:30 am
I benchmarked a large RDS instance against mysql installed on a large instance using EBS: http://www.johngaltsystems.com/blog/amazon-web-serices-rds-benchmark-results/
RDS underperformed terribly…
We’ll stick with an actual instance for the time being.
/J
2 Son Nguyen // Jan 18, 2010 at 2:46 pm
John, Good raw data but if you could have a chart would be much useful for a quick view. What about benchmark against localhost MySQL?
3 JohnG // Mar 8, 2010 at 8:24 am
Yes, proper full analysis would be better, but time is always so short…
Looking at the results, a small subset of the tests let RDS down, and I’m thinking that these had something to do with network issues.
I’ll be more thoroughly retesting in a week or two.
I know that Zoopla: http://blog.zoopla.co.uk/ moved onto RDS and have reported some big improvements.
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