> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Kent Borg > > On 03/21/2013 11:58 AM, Drew Van Zandt wrote: > > trying to figure out what our cheapest AWS setup to handle things for > ~3500 users is. > > What do the different options cost per month?
Better yet: What do the different options cost per year? (Hint: Buy dedicated "heavy" instances for any instance that you leave on all the time.) Amazon bills according to up-time. Not according to CPU load. So even if it's idle 100% of the time, you leave it running for 24 hours, you're billed 24 hours. That's a "heavy" dedicated instance. Drew, remember, this is Amazon. You can run a tiny dedicated instance for the DB, you can run a tiny dedicated instance for the web front end. And then, whenever you're expecting a big surge like this, you spin up three more web front ends and a load balancer that you'll only run for a day. The DB backend is much lighter demand than the web front end. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
