> On Jun 2, 2015, at 10:39 AM, Wes Chow <w...@chartbeat.com> wrote: > > > We have run d2 instances with Kafka. They're currently unstable -- Amazon > confirmed a host issue with d2 instances that gets tickled by a Kafka > workload yesterday. Otherwise, it seems the d2 instance type is ideal as it > gets an enormous amount of disk throughput and you'll likely be network > bottlenecked. >
Do you have any workarounds for the d2 issues? We’ve been using them for our Kafkas too, and ran into the instability. We’re on Ubuntu 12.04 and plan to try on 14.04 with the latest HWE to see if that helps any. Thanks!