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WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill

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261 points tosh | 2 comments | 06 Nov 24 18:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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turtlebits ◴[06 Nov 24 19:58 UTC] No.42068395[source]▶
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.
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VWWHFSfQ ◴[06 Nov 24 20:06 UTC] No.42068522[source]▶
> Is this really an AWS issue?

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.

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JackSlateur ◴[06 Nov 24 20:17 UTC] No.42068676[source]▶

  You can rent real 44-core Xeon servers for like, $250/month.
Where, for instance ?
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VWWHFSfQ ◴[06 Nov 24 20:25 UTC] No.42068788[source]▶
There are many colos that offer dedicated server rental/hosting. You can just google for colos in the region you're looking for. I found this one

https://www.colocrossing.com/server/dedicated-servers/

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petcat ◴[06 Nov 24 20:30 UTC] No.42068853[source]▶
I don't know anything about Colo Crossing (are they a reseller?) but I would bet their $60 per month 4-core Intel Xeons would outperform a $1,000 per month "compute optimized" EC2 server.
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1. fragmede ◴[06 Nov 24 20:33 UTC] No.42068909{5}[source]▶
What benchmark would you like to use?
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2. petcat ◴[06 Nov 24 20:42 UTC] No.42069043[source]▶
This blog is about doing video processing on the CPU, so something akin to that.