AWS Customer Presentation - Conde Nast
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Customer Presentation by Conde Nast at the AWS Cloud for the Enterprise Event in NYC on October 19, 2009
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AWS Customer Presentation - Conde Nast
- 5. — About Wired.com
- 29. Imaging and Racking Servers Is A (Sometimes Fun) Chore
- 34. Architecture
- 36. Benefits Estimated Pricing Based on public Amazon pricing, reddit open source code, and public configuration information Data Center (per month) Servers: $6K Cabinet (x3): $15K Bandwidth: $2.5K Support: N/A Total: $23.5K EC2 (per month) Servers: $13K Storage: $1.5K Bandwidth: $1.1K Support: $1.2K Total: $16.8K 29% Cheaper!
- 43. Pain Points
- 44. Pain Points
Editor's Notes
- reddit is a subsidiary of Conde Nast. They are a multi-billion doallar media conglomorate that owns TV, newspapers, and some of the biggest brand names in publishing, such as Vogue, GQ, etc
- They also have a lot of webistes (other than reddit). currently doing an EC2 proof of concept with Vogue UK and wired.com is also using EC2 for some of their site functionality. But reddit is by far the biggest user of EC2 in Conde Nast.
- community where people come together share and discuss interesting things on the internet such as links to other stuff or their own content.
- Been AWS user since almost the begining
- When we started, we had a custom logo almost every day.
- Unfortunately, allowing the designer SVN access was untenable. So we signed up for S3, and everything was great!
- Now have over 20 million items in a single s3 bucket.
- This is a graph of actual costs vs. what we could have spent on EC2. you can see the spike every time we had to get a new cabinet full of servers
- So we had to make a decision
- This was before Amazon offered the Virtual Private Cloud service. Ran like this for about 7 months, slowing adding new machines as necessary. This went so well we decided to move our whole site to EC2
- started by migrating all the data that could be done ahead of time set up replication to keep the data up to date
- multiple zones beta/staging is elastic app servers are elastic
- What our datacenter would have cost vs. what we pay now 29% cheaper!
- Time to market is faster because I no longer have to wait for servers or set them up. i can get capacity when i need it
- As Amazon upgrades their hardware, I can move up to better stuff.
- Don’t have to pay for capacity we don’t need. I can shut down servers at night, or if a product doesn’t take off
- But moving to EC2 wasn’t all roses
- Virtualized hardware just doesn’t get sub-millisecond response times. We had to rethink how we used memcached, making less calls for more data at a time
- Due to the redundant and network based nature, sometimes the underlying drive has to remirror or the network may be momentarily unavailable. This can be avoided by having read slaves and caching It forced me to add read slaves I should have had anyway
- It is a new paradigm you have to get used to. Ideally the machine can be told to boot and then be ready with no user intervention.
- I can’t stress this enough.
- Eric Hammond’s runurl to trigger a push of the keys to only authorized hosts.
- get a whole application stack in at least 2 zones
- aka. nosql. We’re mostly there, just a few more bits
- A more functional style of programming is generally more reliable in exchange for eventual consistancy
- We are open source, so go to code.reddit.com to see our source.
- This the website of our book which we hope to start filling with lots of useful stuff soon. stay tuned. thank you.