Re: S3-backed snapshot implementation on AWS?
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
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