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Forking ec2instances.info as a vendor-neutral alternative at cloud-instances.info

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 23:16:42 +0000

About ec2instances.info

Most people using AWS for enough time end up using the ec2instances.info website (a.k.a. instances.vantage.sh) to conveniently compare EC2 instance types across families based on specs and pricing.

It’s basically an online spreadsheet with a lot of data about all cloud instance types and filters to slice and dice that data, as you can see below:

The ec2instances.info Open Source project

Few users realize that this very useful website is backed by an open source project.

My thoughts on the current state of EC2 Spot pricing

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 23:16:42 +0000

And what you can do about it

Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu
May 10, 2023

I’ve recently seen a post on HackerNews discussing an interesting article titled “Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances”, painting a pretty depressing picture of recent trends of EC2 Spot pricing.

As someone building AWS cost optimization tooling that makes it easy for people to use Spot instances, I’m pretty familiar with this space so thought I’d share my 2 cents about this current situation and wanted to also offer a few suggestions to Spot users who want to still get the most of Spot instances.

How we maximized task density on our ECS cluster by avoiding burstable instances

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 09:49:03 +0000

And why we had to deploy NAT Gateways in our public subnets

Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu
June 28, 2023

As I’ve mentioned in my previous posts, I’ve been recently working with an AI startup to help them optimize their AWS costs.

After quickly doing the basic things like converting EBS volumes to GP3 using EBSOptimizer, right-sized and converted their RDS databases to Graviton and a few other low hanging fruits, the bulk of the work was about converting their individual instances running Docker-compose to ECS.

My thoughts on the current state of EC2 Spot pricing

Fri, 03 May 2024 21:31:08 +0000

And what you can do about it

Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu
May 10, 2023

Vantage just updated ec2instances.info and released all their code, now what?

Fri, 03 May 2024 21:31:08 +0000

In case you haven’t noticed, Vantage recently updated ec2instances.info with a new refreshed look and feel.

Over the weekend I had a deep-dive into their changes and thought about what to do with the cloud-instances.info fork I launched just a few weeks ago.

Why I forked it in the first place?

I covered this in more depth in my initial post, but basically when I decided to fork it, their main public code base hadn’t been touched in the last 6 months, and barely touched in the last year, except for a couple of my pull requests.

How can Arm chips like AWS Graviton or Apple M1/2 be faster and cheaper than x86 chips from Intel or AMD

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 06:50:44 +0000

The Arm price/performance paradox

In my cost optimization gigs I often see how many people don’t understand how Arm chips (such as AWS Graviton and Apple M1/M2) can be both cheaper and faster than x86 chips from Intel and AMD.

It’s counter-intuitive, so many think that since Graviton is ~20% cheaper, it must also be slower.

To explain this paradox, imagine two development teams:

Team x86 has 4 engineers and 6 managers
Team Arm has 6 engineers and 2 managers

That’s how you can get 50% more output at 20% less costs.

Why I recommended ECS instead of Kubernetes to my latest customer

Thu, 11 Apr 2024 06:50:44 +0000

And how a cost optimization exercise often leads to deeper modernization of cloud applications

Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu
June 08, 2023

It’s been a while since my last post here, and since then I’ve been pretty busy. I’ve been working with an innovative AI startup, helping them optimize their AWS cloud setup. At the same time I’ve been preparing an Udemy course on using ChatGPT for cloud-native software development with a DevOps focus.

Progress report for the first week after forking ec2instances.info

Wed, 25 Oct 2023 15:54:28 +0000

It’s been a little more than a week since I decided to fork ec2instances.info as cloud-instances.info, which I announced publicly last Thursday.

While in my previous post I mostly focused on the context around this fork and how I got to it, on this post I want to talk a bit about what happened after after I decided to fork the project over the last few days and where we’re at right now.

How we maximized task density on our ECS cluster by avoiding burstable instances

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:47:28 +0000

And why we had to deploy NAT Gateways in our public subnets

Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu
June 28, 2023

As I’ve mentioned in my previous posts, I’ve been recently working with an AI startup to help them optimize their AWS costs.

Why I recommended ECS instead of Kubernetes to my latest customer

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:47:28 +0000

And how a cost optimization exercise often leads to deeper modernization of cloud applications

Cristian Măgherușan-Stanciu
June 08, 2023

Forking ec2instances.info as a vendor-neutral alternative at cloud-instances.info

Mon, 15 May 2023 21:09:41 +0000

About ec2instances.info

Most people using AWS for enough time end up using the ec2instances.info website (a.k.a. instances.vantage.sh) to conveniently compare EC2 instance types across families based on specs and pricing.

It’s basically an online spreadsheet with a lot of data about all cloud instance types and filters to slice and dice that data, as you can see below:

The ec2instances.info Open Source project

Few users realize that this very useful website is backed by an open source project.

Vantage just updated ec2instances.info and released all their code, now what?

Mon, 15 May 2023 21:09:41 +0000

In case you haven’t noticed, Vantage recently updated ec2instances.info with a new refreshed look and feel.

Over the weekend I had a deep-dive into their changes and thought about what to do with the cloud-instances.info fork I launched just a few weeks ago.

Why I forked it in the first place?

How can Arm chips like AWS Graviton or Apple M1/2 be faster and cheaper than x86 chips from Intel or AMD

Wed, 10 May 2023 07:00:00 +0000

The Arm price/performance paradox

In my cost optimization gigs I often see how many people don’t understand how Arm chips (such as AWS Graviton and Apple M1/M2) can be both cheaper and faster than x86 chips from Intel and AMD.

It’s counter-intuitive, so many think that since Graviton is ~20% cheaper, it must also be slower.

To explain this paradox, imagine two development teams:

Team x86 has 4 engineers and 6 managers
Team Arm has 6 engineers and 2 managers

That’s how you can get 50% more output at 20% less costs.

Progress report for the first week after forking ec2instances.info

Wed, 10 May 2023 07:00:00 +0000

It’s been a little more than a week since I decided to fork ec2instances.info as cloud-instances.info, which I announced publicly last Thursday.