Hi, Actually, cross-AZ traffic is actually free. It's cross-Region traffic that's not free. I realize the cross-AZ (translates to cross-DC) traffic will be slower, but I wonder if there are any HBase (or HDFS)-specific reasons why one should not attempt to do this?
Thanks, Otis -- Search Analytics - http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html HBASE Performance Monitoring - http://sematext.com/spm/index.html On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Amandeep Khurana <[email protected]> wrote: > I've not come across anyone spanning clusters cross AZ. You pay for cross > AZ traffic and the link is slower than within a single AZ. > > Amandeep > > > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Otis Gospodnetic < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Do people spread HBase clusters over multiple EC2 Availability Zones, >> or is that a big no-no? Cross-AZ communication is supposedly going >> over fast fiber optic cables. >> >> Thanks, >> Otis >> -- >> Search Analytics - http://sematext.com/search-analytics/index.html >> HBASE Performance Monitoring - http://sematext.com/spm/index.html >>
