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WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill

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257 points tosh | 3 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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Faaak ◴[06 Nov 24 20:21 UTC] No.42068729[source]▶
Hetzner for example. An EPYC 48c (96t) goes for 230 euros
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dilyevsky ◴[06 Nov 24 20:24 UTC] No.42068782[source]▶
Hetzner network is complete dog. They also sell you machines that are long should be EOL’ed. No serious business should be using them
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blibble ◴[06 Nov 24 20:54 UTC] No.42069210{4}[source]▶
I just cat'ed /proc/cpuinfo on my Hetzner and AWS machines

AWS: E5-2680 v4 (2016)

Hetzner: Ryzen 5 (2019)

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1. dilyevsky ◴[06 Nov 24 23:53 UTC] No.42071461{5}[source]▶
Now do hard drives
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2. blibble ◴[07 Nov 24 01:08 UTC] No.42072132[source]▶
the hetzner one is a dedicated pcie 4.0 nvme device and wrote at 2.3GB/s (O_DIRECT)

the AWS one is some emulated block device, no idea what it is, other than it's 20x slower

3. luuurker ◴[07 Nov 24 03:05 UTC] No.42072929[source]▶
You keep moving the goal posts with these replies.

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.