Having used AWS for the last month and seen the costs racking up, I'm wondering what is the best strategy for running Metashape on AWS instances.
At the moment I have two on-demand instances:
G3.4x.large - for bulk of heavy processing
M5.2x.large - for general work (e.g. aligning GCPs, exporting data)
I then keep a 150Gb volume for project files which can be attached to either machine. And offload outputs to S3 for client delivery.
Questions:
1) as these are currently Windows, I guess moving to Linux would be a good start?
2) are spot instances an option? (it looks like G3 machines are not supported with a hibernate option and also I foresee licensing being an issue)
3) are these sensible machine types as a balance of speed v cost?
Topic: Optimal strategy for AWS instances (Read 1547 times)
