On 2014-10-08 19:38, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > > After speaking to a whole bunch of people about a whole bunch of systems, I'm > pretty confident that we know what's going on - Simply, the machine in > question is a "tiny" instance, so when Amazon gets enough demand for higher > paying customers on higher paying instances, they take the little machines > like this, and simply flush us down the toilet. It's a big F-U to little > customers. >
There are a lot of things on AWS that aren't clear, but this isn't one of them. The only conditions, beside technical issues, where AWS will slow down or shutdown your instances, regardless of how big a customer you are, are: - Spot instances, regardless of the type/size of instance, "will run until either you choose to terminate them or the Spot Price increases above your maximum price". - "burstable" instances will give you more CPU power when you peak, but you cannot sustain higher CPU usage for a long time. If you try to use a lot of CPU for a prolonged amount of time, AWS will choke your CPU slowly. Suddenly the CPU will slow down and your processes will time out. If this isn't what's going on, then contact their support (you can use their forum if you don't pay for support), and have them trace what went wrong with their instance. -- Yves. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
