I was referring to this: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/#DataTransfer
Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS or Amazon ElastiCache instances, Amazon Elastic Load Balancing, or Elastic Network Interfaces in another Availability Zone in the same AWS Region $0.01 per GB The cost to transfer across AZs is lower than across regions but you still pay. On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 10:58 AM, 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 > >> >
