world's quickest cloud?

[Alex Heneveld]

General question, as I seem to spend too much of my life waiting for VM's...

What provider do people find is the quickest to give an sshable VM?

Using jclouds ofc, a simple config (minRam not imageId), and slow-ish
broadband.
(Querying AWS seems to take longer every day :( )

--A

[Adrian Cole]

Grepping through our release notes txt files on jclouds.github.com for "available" will grant you the answer you seek.

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[Alex Heneveld]

Handy tip.  Although I'm suspecting this doesn't include fetching the image list, or else it's run with fast broadband.  I never get an AWS machine in 110s from a cold start -- more like 5m.

--A

On 18/05/2012 01:06, Adrian Cole wrote:

Grepping through our release notes txt files on jclouds.github.com for "available" will grant you the answer you seek.

On May 17, 2012 4:51 PM, "Alex Heneveld" <alex.h...@cloudsoftcorp.com> wrote:

General question, as I seem to spend too much of my life waiting for VM's...

What provider do people find is the quickest to give an sshable VM?

Using jclouds ofc, a simple config (minRam not imageId), and slow-ish broadband.
(Querying AWS seems to take longer every day :( )

--A

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[Adrian Cole]

YMMV esp from UK ;)

I'll update the data soon, too as we hopefully will be beta soon.

-A

[Adrian Cole]

p.s. from today on aws:

ImmutableMap<String, String> userMetadata =
ImmutableMap.<String, String> of("Name", group);
Stopwatch watch = new Stopwatch().start();
NodeMetadata node = getOnlyElement(client.createNodesInGroup(group, 1,
inboundPorts(22, 8080).blockOnPort(22,
300).userMetadata(userMetadata)));
long createSeconds = watch.elapsedTime(TimeUnit.SECONDS);

INFO: << available node(us-east-1/i-b91161df) os([name=null,
family=amzn-linux, version=pv-2012.03.1, arch=paravirtual,
is64Bit=true, description=amazon/amzn-ami-pv-2012.03.1.x86_64-ebs]) in
74s


On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Alex Heneveld

[Paul Baclace]

74sec is wonderful. I assume that such speed requires:
* only spawning one instance
* ebs vol (possibly a widely-used one)
* no sec group changes (hmm, I see 8080) or pre-existing sec group
* no tags

Paul

[Adrian Cole]

Hi, Paul

notes inline:

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Paul Baclace <paul.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 74sec is wonderful.  I assume that such speed requires:
> *  only spawning one instance

we can try more, but I don't think it will take much more time, as we
are using a single launch command and *not* customizing with a
runscript (thus avoiding ssh thrashing)

> *  ebs vol (possibly a widely-used one)

good point

> *  no sec group changes (hmm, I see 8080) or pre-existing sec group

this one changes the group
> *  no tags
all aws-ec2 instances implicitly get the Name tag assigned, so that's baked in

[Adrian Cole]

p.s. not bad, eh? congrats hpcloud-compute/openstack!

INFO: << available node(az-2.region-a.geo-1/129473) os([name=Ubuntu
Precise 12.04 LTS Server 64-bit 20120424, family=ubuntu,
version=12.04, arch=null, is64Bit=true, description=Ubuntu Precise
12.04 LTS Server 64-bit 20120424]) in 47s

[Chris Strand]

Wow - Just signed up for HP Cloud! Hopefully Rackspace boot up times will speed up when they make the switch.

Chris