Could be a reason to think about building and distributing a CKAN AMI, I think.
On Sep 9, 2010, at 11:14 AM, James Casbon wrote: > 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? Yes, there was a bug in the offenedaten plugin used by de.ckan.net that seems apparently caused the outages. I'm still a bit worried about the load on eu8 (which is mostly hosting de.ckan without the plugin at the moment): http://munin.eu1.okfn.org/okfn.org/eu7.okfn.org-load.html Friedrich > 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 _______________________________________________ okfn-help mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-help
