Re: a small report from the Amazon AWS world

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-n65semc4zdkai

Boy, do some research

On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 8:15 PM Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote:

>
> The Amazon EC2 experiment with FreeBSD 13.1 on aarch64 :
>
> Today I bit the bullet and trudged through the baffling config options
> on the Amazon AWS EC2 interface to get FreeBSD 13.1 up and running. I
> went with the r6gd.xlarge type instance which provides some mysterious
> four core config and 32GB of memory. There is also a 237 NVMe SSD in
> there but I had to search around to figure out where that was after the
> instance booted up.  I did not see any way to get at the console and do
> the installation myself because I would have gone pure ZFS. What I did
> get was a 32GB root device thing at /dev/nda0 and the blank SSD was the
> device /dev/nda1.
>
> Performance is not thrilling.  Nope.  I am still doing a few compute
> tests and also a file thrash on both the UFS and the ZFS filesystems but
> there is nothing to write home about thus far. What is far more scary
> about all this is the cost of network traffic which could go well past
> the four hundred USD a month mark on a halfway decent busy website. My
> calculations could be way off the mark however.
>
> Not sure what else to say but I am still running some baseline tests.
> Very happy to see the AMI instance offer exists for FreeBSD 13.1 on the
> aarch64 platform but I have no idea what I am getting for my money. Yet.
>
> Any questions ?
>
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> Dennis Clarke
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