I haven't tried using gRPC on AWS but it is on my TODO list in near future.
Just to add Application Load Balancer does seem to support HTTP/2: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-application-load-balancer/ https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/classicloadbalancer/faqs/ So theoretically some kind of ALB + EC2 (and ECS) setup should work. AFAIK API Gateway and Elastic Beanstalk are not possibilities currently. Hope this helps. On Thursday, 19 January 2017 10:18:18 UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > > gRPC "works" in AWS. That is, you can run gRPC services on EC2 nodes and > have them connect to other nodes, and everything is fine. If you are using > AWS for easy access to hardware then all is fine. > > What doesn't work is ELB (aka CLB), and ALBs. Neither of these support > HTTP/2 (h2c) in a way that gRPC needs. > > ELBs work in TCP mode, but you give up useful health checking and the > join-shortest-queue behaviour that makes normal HTTP mode ELBs good. It > also means you may experience problems with how well balanced your cluster > is since only individual client connections are balanced rather than > individual requests to the backend. If a single client is generating a lot > of requests, they will all go to the same backend rather than being > balanced across your available instances. > > This also means that ECS doesn't really work properly since it only > supports the use of ELB and ALB load balancers. > > If your requirements are not too demanding TCP mode ELBs do work, and you > can definitely ship stuff that way. It's just not ideal and has some fairly > major problems as your request rates and general system complexity increase. > > On Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at 12:59:40 PM UTC, Daniel Rios wrote: >> >> Hey all, >> >> I'm interested on trying out gRPC on AWS, but I am new to this and >> couldn't find examples or documentation related. Is it possible, due the >> HTTP/2 features?, I also wonder how doable this is. >> >> Thanks >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "grpc.io" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/grpc-io. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/d2327ec2-9aa6-47b2-b4bf-a210cb165fb8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
