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This is a guest post by Ali Khajeh-Hosseini, Technical Lead at PlanForCloud.com.
I read a recent blog post about TripAdvisor's experiment with AWS where they attempted to process 700K HTTP requests per minute on a replica of their live site. There was also an interesting blog post on Pinterest's massive growth on AWS. These blogs highlighted exactly the types of questions we're interested in, mainly:
- How much would it cost to deploy System X on Cloud Y? e.g. how much would it cost to host TripAdvisor on the AWS US-East cloud?
- Would it be cheaper to use deployment option X or Y? e.g. would it be cheaper to use reserved instances, different types of instances, different cloud providers...
- What happens to costs when the system grows? e.g. Pinterest has around 410TB of data on S3, what if that keeps growing at a rate of 25% every month, like it has been in the last 10 months?
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