[atlas] probes on VMs

I have non-atlas probes at all EC2 centres. Definitely support virtualised
Atlas.

On Friday, March 27, 2015, Klaus Darilion <klaus.mailinglists at pernau.at>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I just found an old thread about virtual probes:
> https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-atlas/2013-June/000849.html
>
> I second the problems of virtual hosts and that the results may not as
> good as other probes result, but there is a big advantage for virtual
> probes - I can host them in the cloud.
>
> For example, I just wanted to debug routing issues from the Microsoft
> Cloud in Brazil to our server. Unfortunately there are no probes in this
> Cloud's AS. With a virtual probe it would be quite easy. I order an VM
> with Microsoft, and have my probe in the chosen datacenter. The probe
> could be tagged with "VM" to show that it is running on shared resources.
>
> Of course the VM will produce extra costs, but there may be sponsors,
> and the smallest VM is usually enough. For example , one possibility
> would be, that the sponsor donates the money, e.g. 10-20€ per month, and
> chooses the cloud location. RIPE will then rent the VMs and run the
> probes. With several sponsors we could get a nice cloud coverage, and we
> could deploy probes in networks where the provider does not want to
> hosts physical probes.
>
> regards
> Klaus
>
>
>
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