On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 05:12:21PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > Could we use the Debian AWS account to host that service? > > I would assume that a service like snapshot would be within the scope > for our AWS usage. Noah?
It makes sense and I will look into it. Let's not start anything until we hear definitive confirmation. Do we have a sense of how much outgoing traffic the current snapshot service generates? > > It would > > require one fairly powerful VM, and a large S3 bucket (approximately > > 150-200 TB). > > 200 TB should be no problem. Agreed. > However we need to talk about that "one […] VM", because this sounds > like you intend to use AWS as VM hosting, which it is not. > > Please think about this in form of services and there should be at least > two: > - the injestor, which can only exist once and writes, and > - the web frontend, which should be able to exist several times and only > reads. > > So you want to plan with running the multiple web frontends with load > balancers and maybe even cloudfront. I agree that it would be best to design something more cloud-oriented. However, if there's an existing infrastructure that can be moved as a "lift & shift" into AWS now, with architectural refactoring happening later, that's an OK place to start. noah
