One thing you might already be aware of, but you can (since a week or two) run EC2 instances on top of EBS (the elastic block store) which allows you to stop an EC2 instance whilst keeping all files you stored/changed on this EBS volume. Stopping also means you're not being charged for the EC2 instance anymore, only for the EBS itself.
On Dec 12, 2009, at 6:58 , Niclas Hedhman wrote: > Gang, > I just want to provide a general "warning" for EC2 charge model. > >> From the EC2 marketing page; "On-Demand Instances let you pay for > compute capacity by the hour." > > But that is NOT CPU hour, but "wall clock" hour as they say on > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/158765/amazon-ec2-cost > > And I can confirm this empirically, and I guess Philippe knows this > already ("Ringgit eater"), but in case everyone else doesn't... Came > as a surprise to me. > > However, I don't have 24 hours of every day. As low as 13 hours, and > often 17, 18 hours. No clue why. > > > Cheers > -- > Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer > http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java > > I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er > I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc > I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug > > _______________________________________________ > qi4j-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/qi4j-dev _______________________________________________ qi4j-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ops4j.org/mailman/listinfo/qi4j-dev
