Raul wrote: >Ick. Actually it looks more like a dollar an hour. >Still cheap, but not as cheap as the pricing page indicated. There's many >billing options and it actually costs quite a lot to study them (in terms >of people time)
I try to tell my customers this. They get hooked on the EC2 running some simple database app on smaller instances. Then when it comes time for me to do some data analysis using R (I have used J too, though don't tell anyone), the large instances end up costing quite a bit. Deploying something that's hammering the CPU 24/7, they're looking at $8-10k an instance-year. Worse: network and hard drive is often ungodly slow unless you give Amazon moar money.
Cool thing for the occasional job though. I was considering fiddling with their GPU machines, but decided that forking out $150 for a GTX750 was plenty cheap, without any uncertainty.
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