Code review comment for lp:~jtv/gwacl/a5-machine-type

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On 2013-09-24 9:34, Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote:
> Jeroen T. Vermeulen has proposed merging
> lp:~jtv/gwacl/a5-machine-type into lp:gwacl.
>
> Commit message: Update role sizes: new A5 machine type, and new
> prices.
>
> Requested reviews: GWACL Hackers (gwacl-hackers)
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> For more details, see:
> https://code.launchpad.net/~jtv/gwacl/a5-machine-type/+merge/187149
>
>
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Microsoft just sent out an announcement for this new
> memory-intensive machine type. Neither the email nor the online
> listings give hard-disk sizes for this new type yet, so I had to
> give conservative estimates for these. (The listings do show the
> new type, so this is probably a temporary oversight). I'll file a
> bug to update those later.
>
> Also note that most of the prices were about half again higher than
> the ones we had listed. I added a notice pointing out that gwacl
> is not the last word in Azure's pricing.
>
>
> Jeroen
>

Right, I don't think Juju is trying to do billing based on these
numbers. All Juju uses it for is "given the constraints 1GB mem/etc
what is the cheapest thing that fulfills this". Which we only need
relative values for.
We've talked about moving this data into simplestreams actually, so we
can update it without a code rollout, but that isn't today.

 review: approve

John
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