Yes looks good, makes more sense to use their hosted DBs as well now? Are there reserved prices for these too?
BTW I haven't fully caught up on my mail from being back from holiday, but was the EC2 mystery cpu time use resolved satisfactorily? On 9 September 2010 10:12, Rufus Pollock <[email protected]> wrote: > This announcement seems very relevant for us: we often would like to > use a smaller instance to run apps (especially webapps) in a more > partitioned manner but up until now this has been difficult since this > would be very inefficient (in that we would use very little of the > instance's resources). > > Rufus > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Amazon Web Services <[email protected]> > Date: 9 September 2010 09:23 > Subject: Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2 > > > Dear Amazon EC2 Customer, > > We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Micro > instances for Amazon EC2, a new, low cost instance type designed for > lower throughput applications and web sites. > > Micro instances provide 613 MB of memory and support 32-bit and 64-bit > platforms on both Linux and Windows. Micro instance pricing for > On-Demand instances starts at $0.02 per hour for Linux and $0.03 per > hour for Windows. > > Customers have asked us for a lower priced instance type that could > satisfy the needs of their less demanding applications. Micro > instances are optimized for applications that require lower > throughput, but which still may consume significant compute cycles > periodically. Micro instances provide a small amount of consistent CPU > resources, and also allow you to burst CPU capacity when additional > cycles are available. > > Micro instances are available immediately in all regions, and we > invite you to go and try one out for yourself today! Learn more about > Amazon EC2's new Micro instances at aws.amazon.com/ec2. > > Sincerely, > > The Amazon EC2 Team > > We hope you enjoyed receiving this message. If you wish to remove > yourself from receiving future product announcements or the AWS > Newsletter, please update your communication preferences. > > Amazon Web Services LLC is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon.com > is a registered trademark of Amazon.com, Inc. This message produced > and distributed by Amazon Web Services, LLC, 1200 12th Ave South, > Seattle, WA 98144. > > > -- > Open Knowledge Foundation > Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age > http://www.okfn.org/ - http://blog.okfn.org/ > _______________________________________________ okfn-help mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-help
