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ArekBulski
ArekBulski

Reputation: 5098

Amount of traffic t2.micro can handle

How can I estimate how many page views per second or in parallel an instance like t2.micro can handle? I know this varies depending on database queries, template processing and such, but I need some conservative estimates or real world examples just for a point of reference.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 6262

Answers (1)

Chris White
Chris White

Reputation: 1447

You're going to have issues if you try and apply a typical VPS type thought process to AWS. One of the strengths of AWS is that you have elasticity. Put up some instances, then add more when demand increases. Auto Scaling Groups mixed with an Elastic Load Balancer helps greatly with automatically dealing with demand (though it's not going to handle unexpected spike traffic very well, you'll just have to have a lot of standby instances ready if you want to deal with that).

One reason why you don't want to have t1.micros directly serving up requests is because slow clients can take up sockets that could be used to connect to the database. That's why you let ELB handle the clients instead so you don't have to deal with that. Also how many clients you can handle will be very much based on the number of available sockets, available resources, what type of web server you have installed, etc. etc.

If you're serving up static files then just use S3, potentially mixed with CloudFront to deal with that. For dealing with simple API calls that do CRUD operations on a database just use Lambda Functions with API Gateway. Since both Lambda and API Gateway will scale up with demand you won't really have to worry about the page views issue as much.

You're simply going to have an extremely difficult time finding a direct answer to your question just due to the way AWS works and how folks utilize it.

Upvotes: 5

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