Re traffic and free vs. not free - Amandeep was right - according to http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/#DataTransfer it's NOT free. The AWS person I recently spoke to about this told me it was free, but I guess it's not!
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 1:58 PM, Otis Gospodnetic <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>
