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EC2

Rationale

AWS EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is the service we use for running computing machines on the cloud. It provides the required infrastructure for services like our CIKubernetes Cluster, among others. The main reasons why we chose it over other alternatives are the following:

Alternatives

Note on Google and Azure alternativesNote: Google Compute Engine and Azure Compute are alternatives that did not exist at the time we migrated to the cloud. A review of each of them is pending.

Usage

We use AWS EC2 for running

  • CI workers and bastion;
  • Kubernetes Cluster workers and autoscaling;
  • Batch workers;
  • Okta RADIUS agent;
  • ERP;
  • Jumpcloud LDAP agents (this is currently being deprecated).