After looking closer at the AWS Elasticsearch service, it's actually pretty expensive at this point ($13.50/month for 1gb memory or $54.75/month for 4gb), which may make this "distributed" Arches not a financially sound idea. Haven't done all the calculations though.
Adam On Friday, March 4, 2016 at 8:59:22 AM UTC-6, Adam Cox wrote: > > HI Joel and Alexei, it seems you might actually be able to do this (maybe > not right now, but eventually) though it would be tricky. Here's a (very) > new project <https://github.com/Miserlou/django-zappa>aimed deploying > django on Lamda, and here's a little bit more > <https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/44r55j/announcing_djangozappa_serverless_django_on_aws/>information. > > You'd have to place your postgres db on AWS RDS, but it looks like that > Zappa project doesn't support postgres yet (you can see here > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plUrbPN0xc8&feature=youtu.be>at 12:00 > that he chooses a MySQL db). Also, I didn't know it before, but it looks > like AWS has its own ElasticSearch > <https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-elasticsearch-service/>service, > so you could probably use that for your elasticseach instance. > > Ultimately you're just distributing all of the Arches components between > various AWS services. I think this could actually alleviate much of the > operating system/software dependency issues that we have come across. No > idea how the costs would stack up though... > > Adam > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 1:44 AM, Alexei Peters <apet...@fargeo.com> wrote: > >> Hi Joel, >> >> Since most of Arches code is either backed by Postgres or Elasticsearch, >> which are processes, I don't think Lambda would work to power Arches as it >> runs in a stateless environment. Arches relies on file storage and other >> supporting processes to work properly. >> Pretty interesting idea though. >> >> Cheers, >> Alexei >> >> >> >> >> Director of Web Development - Farallon Geographics, Inc. - 971.227.3173 >> >> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Joel Aldor <joel.al...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Has anyone tried putting Arches Python code on AWS Lambda? Or, at least >>> in theory, will Arches HIP work on it? I'd be very interested to know. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Joel >>> >>> -- >>> -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To >>> unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more information, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Arches Project" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To >> unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more information, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Arches Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
