For production servers that are online 24/7 (or anything over 76 percent), we use the "heavy utilization" model. This gives a cost of $20.01 per month for a small instance with a one year commit, including the amortized fee, or $14.91 with a three year commit. The break even point on going with a three year commit is 19 months.
Thanks, Cary On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Peter Murray <peter.mur...@lyrasis.org> wrote: > We had this discussion last month about using EC2 for production services. > They have dropped their pricing again, so a reserved 'small' instance is now > $17.57/month after paying the one-time reservation fee of $160 for a 1-year > term. That averages out to about $31/month. > > > Peter > -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com
