Basically, a 10TB cluster, using the above calcs, saves a client ~$3500/year compared to using AWS. And that's a pretty small cluster. Scale that out significantly and you end up with some pretty impressive cost savings.
Mahalo, Adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW Direct: +1 (302) 268-6914 On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Adam Lawson <alaw...@aqorn.com> wrote: > Alejandro, > > Maybe this will help you. It's a cost analysis we did for one of our large > clients who were using S3 heavily and considering a move to Swift. We did > the analysis to determine if it was worth the investment and confirm how > the underlying infrastructure (phys/virt) impacted the final cost of > service. It was then easy to compare those numbers against AWS so their > leadership could assess whether the savings were worth the effort. Because > there were definitely savings. > > Analysis completed about a month ago. Conclusion? Running Swift on virtual > infrastructure wasn't worth it (too expensive), running even a small Swift > cluster on physical commodity hardware *beat* AWS by $0.029 (assuming AWS > was $0.075 per GB). The margins are slim for both Swift and AWS but saving > 2c per GB adds up which means Swift gets more cost advantageous with larger > clusters; according to our calculations. Numbers below assume VMware is > used for virtual infra with its full-cycle service delivery costs baked in. > > >> *Monthly costs Swift on Virt Swift on Phys AWS **Per GB $0.63 $0.046 >> $0.075* >> >> Proxy ct: 6 $5.04 4GB RAM=$0.84 >> Storage ct: 15 $7,887.60 2500gb=$525 4GB RAM=$0.84 >> Keystone ct: 3 $3.36 8GB RAM=$1.68 >> Virt Cost $7,896.00 monthly >> >> HW Cost $34,500 Cap ~$1500/server >> $575 monthly 5 year EOL >> $575 / 12.5TB usable capacity = cost/GB/month > > > > *Adam Lawson* > AQORN, Inc. > 427 North Tatnall Street > Ste. 58461 > Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 > Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW > Direct: +1 (302) 268-6914 > > > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Alejandro Comisario < > alejandro.comisa...@mercadolibre.com> wrote: > >> Lovely Johon, i'll read that but hey ... beilieve me, this in-deep >> analysis that im going through in my company making a production proyect >> crumble just because lack of costs data regarding amazon will be a constant >> while amazon keeps droping prices. >> >> If you can share those details, that would be : project-saving. >> Thanks so much. >> >> >> >> Alejandro Comisario >> *MercadoLibre Cloud Services* >> Arias 3751, Piso 7 (C1430CRG) >> Ciudad de Buenos Aires - Argentina >> Cel: +549(11) 15-3770-1857 >> Tel : +54(11) 4640-8443 >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 2:37 PM, John Dickinson <m...@not.mn> wrote: >> >>> Alejandro, >>> >>> We blogged about this recently at >>> https://swiftstack.com/blog/2014/04/24/about-those-public-cloud-price-drops/. >>> I've asked around the office here at SwiftStack to see if we can put >>> together some more public cost details (specifically in response to you >>> question), so I hope we can share some more info soon. >>> >>> --John >>> >>> >>> >>> On Apr 30, 2014, at 5:11 AM, Alejandro Comisario < >>> alejandro.comisa...@mercadolibre.com> wrote: >>> >>> > Hi guys. >>> > After amazon dropped its prices among other things, on S3 its seems >>> that i need in my compañy to justify/analyze if swift keeps being the most >>> cost convenient solution (we have it in house) >>> > >>> > When we decided going with swift one year ago, one of the main >>> constraints was "keeping the data in our datacenter" so we did'nt do the >>> excercice of costs, but today since "seems" that this constraint might be >>> no more i need to go through this excercise (of course i want to stay with >>> swift) >>> > >>> > So, im reaching the community to ask experiences of people that went >>> through the same scenario, things to take into account and recent results. >>> > >>> > I bumped with a great aticle from Amar Kapadia at: >>> http://www.buildcloudstorage.com/2012/01/can-openstack-swift-hit-amazon-s3-like.htmland >>> since i belive is a great place to start, the calculations an variables >>> might be outdated. >>> > >>> > help is more than apreciated!! >>> > >>> > >>> > best. >>> > alejandrito >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > Mailing list: >>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack >>> > Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org >>> > Unsubscribe : >>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack >> Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org >> Unsubscribe : >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack >> >> >
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