Goal

You want to facilitate the Atlassian Data Center on AWS quick starts for performance and functional testing without breaking the bank.

~75% cost savings over regular usage

Challenges

  1. AWS (and other cloud providers) offer significant cost saving options, but this usually requires some proficiency

  2. Atlassian does not seem to be overly concerned with paying more for AWS usage than necessary

  3. Diverging quick start branches complicate collaboration

Quick start branches


Cost | Features

Landing page

Repositories

AWS

(minus) | (minus)

https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/

https://github.com/aws-quickstart?q=atlassian

Atlassian

(minus) | (plus)

Atlassian Data Center on AWS quick starts 

https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/atlassian-aws-deployment/

Utoolity

(plus) | (tick)

TBD (community summary)

https://bitbucket.org/utoolitylabs/profile/repositories?search=quickstart

Cost saving options / status

Option / Status

AWS
(official)

Atlassian
(upstream)

Utoolity
(fork)

Notes

Resource configuration





Facilitate current instance types

(minus)

(tick)

(tick)

  • those are usually more cost-efficient

Default to inexpensive parameters

(minus)

(tick)

(plus)

  • many tests do not require production oriented environments (e.g. multi-az)

(lightbulb) Facilitate EC2 spot instances ('use spot')

(error)

(error)

(tick) | (info)

Resource utilization





Reuse/Disable optional components

(error)

(question)

(tick)

  • e.g. NAT gateways and bastion hosts

(lightbulb) Stop cluster during off-hours ('cold standby')

(error)

(error)

(tick) | (info) 

Terminate cluster during off-hours (fully automated backup/restore)

(error)

(error)

(error)

  • savings potential depends on MTTR goals (non-trivial)

Reserved instances

N/A

N/A

N/A

  • for savvy AWS users only

Related news

AWS  regularly releases new features that can further increase the scope and efficiency of these cost saving patterns, e.g. just recently:

Step-by-step guide

TBD

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