EC2 trials part ii
22 November 2007
I instantiated a “Large” image at Amazon’s EC2. The specs of the Large image are as follows:
- 7.5GB RAM
- 2x dual-core processor units (4 compute units in total), with each compute unit equivalent to a 2007 1.2-GHz AMD Opteron processor
- 850GB of data storage
- Full 64-bit computing platform
One hour of computing time for a Large instance is USD $0.40. Cheeeeeeap!
I ran a test to see exactly how I could use this service for the client mentioned in my previous post. The sources totaled 1.2GB of text data, and the operation resulted in 82,486,015 records being inserted into the database. Total elapsed time: 24 minutes. The process took up to 20 hours on the old server, and about 12 hours on the new server. I was totally floored by how fast it ran. Color me Stoked. I’m trying to think of other ways I could put this to use…
Tags: aws, Computing, ec2, Work
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