ali khajeh hosseini -plan forcloud - cloudcamp london 24.10.12
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How much would Pinterest or TripAdvisor cost
to host on the cloud?
Ali Khajeh-Hosseini
@PlanForCloud, @AliKhajeh
Inspired by two blogs posts on HighScalability.com
http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/10/2/an-epic-tripadvisor-update-why-not-run-on-the-cloud-the-gran.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/5/21/pinterest-architecture-update-18-million-visitors-10x-growth.html
How much would it cost to deploy System X on Cloud Y?
$1.7M/year
Would it be cheaper to use deployment option X or Y?
e.g. reserved instances, different types of instances, different cloud providers…
Over 7,000 prices in PlanForCloud
$0.9M/year (using reserved instances)
1st month: $450K After: $38K/month
What happens to costs if system grows?
e.g. start with 410TB of S3 storage, then grow by 25% every month
Currently: $39K/month 1yr from now: $470K/month
Moral of the story?
It pays to do some upfront cost forecasting and comparing