I need big m4n instances with 100gbe for product demos, and spinning them up lately is like trying to get Taylor Swift tickets on Ticketmaster. We end up wasting money running them for days at a time instead of on demand because we’re afraid of losing them.
It’s infuriating that AWS doesn’t have an API that returns a list of AZs with available inventory for a given instance type.
We used to run demos on a local hardware cluster, but we found that prospective customers were reacting negatively to demos that were not on the same platform they would be running in production (AWS).
I’ve had great experiences running bare metal instances on packet.io but haven’t used them since the acquisition. For accurate benchmarking it was fantastic (and much cheaper than EC2 bare metal instances).
It’s infuriating that AWS doesn’t have an API that returns a list of AZs with available inventory for a given instance type.