We have been looking for a while for some way to decouple the S3 filesystem
support from Hadoop.

Does anyone know a good S3 connector library that works independent of
Hadoop and EMRFS?

Best,
Stephan


On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 7:57 PM, Greg Hogan <c...@greghogan.com> wrote:

> EMRFS looks to *add* cost (and consistency).
>
> Storing an object to S3 costs "$0.005 per 1,000 requests", so $0.432/day
> at 1 Hz. Is the number of checkpoint files simply parallelism * number of
> operators? That could add up quickly.
>
> Is the recommendation to run HDFS on EBS?
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Jonathan Share <jon.sh...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> Standard storage class, everything is on defaults, we've not done
>> anything special with the bucket.
>>
>> Cloud Watch only appears to give me total billing for S3 in general, I
>> don't see a breakdown unless that's something I can configure somewhere.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jonathan
>>
>>
>> On 23 November 2016 at 16:29, Greg Hogan <c...@greghogan.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jonathan,
>>>
>>> Which S3 storage class are you using? Do you have a breakdown of the S3
>>> costs as storage / API calls / early deletes / data transfer?
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 2:52 AM, Jonathan Share <jon.sh...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm interested in hearing if anyone else has experience with using
>>>> Amazon S3 as a state backend in the Frankfurt region. For political reasons
>>>> we've been asked to keep all European data in Amazon's Frankfurt region.
>>>> This causes a problem as the S3 endpoint in Frankfurt requires the use of
>>>> AWS Signature Version 4 "This new Region supports only Signature
>>>> Version 4" [1] and this doesn't appear to work with the Hadoop version
>>>> that Flink is built against [2].
>>>>
>>>> After some hacking we have managed to create a docker image with a
>>>> build of Flink 1.2 master, copying over jar files from the hadoop
>>>> 3.0.0-alpha1 package and this appears to work, for the most part but we
>>>> still suffer from some classpath problems (conflicts between AWS API used
>>>> in hadoop and those we want to use in out streams for interacting with
>>>> Kinesis) and the whole thing feels a little fragile. Has anyone else tried
>>>> this? Is there a simpler solution?
>>>>
>>>> As a follow-up question, we saw that with checkpointing on three
>>>> relatively simple streams set to 1 second, our S3 costs were higher than
>>>> the EC2 costs for our entire infrastructure. This seems slightly
>>>> disproportionate. For now we have reduced checkpointing interval to 10
>>>> seconds and that has greatly improved the cost projections graphed via
>>>> Amazon Cloud Watch, but I'm interested in hearing other peoples experience
>>>> with this. Is that the kind of billing level we can expect or is this a
>>>> symptom of a mis-configuration? Is this a setup others are using? As we are
>>>> using Kinesis as the source for all streams I don't see a huge risk with
>>>> larger checkpoint intervals and our Sinks are designed to mostly tolerate
>>>> duplicates (some improvements can be made).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>> Jonathan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-region-germany/
>>>> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-13324
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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