Thanks for the notes. I've been excited about this, but haven't created a new account yet. Good to know about the EBS sizing and launching an instance with more memory.
On Nov 16, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Gary Mort wrote: > FYI, as a birthday gift to me[my birthday was October 20th and they announced > it on the 21st, clearly geared towards me!], Amazon has introduced a new > "free" pricing tier. > > http://aws.amazon.com/free/ > > If you sign up for a new AWS developer account, you get a bunch of free > storage space and server time each month for a year. Highlights are: > 750 hours of Amazon EC2 Linux Micro Instance usage (613 MB of memory and > 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) – enough hours to run continuously each > month* > 10 GB of Amazon Elastic Block Storage, plus 1 million I/Os, 1 GB of snapshot > storage, 10,000 snapshot Get Requests and 1,000 snapshot Put Requests* > 5 GB of Amazon S3 storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests* > 30 GB per of internet data transfer (15 GB of data transfer “in” and 15 GB of > data transfer “out” across all services except Amazon CloudFront)* > > So, basically you can run a VPS on their micro instance for free, equivalent > to a virtual linux server that you rent from others for upwards of 20$ a > month. > > The only downside is that at the moment, most public EBS images are sized to > 15GB, so you can't run that image all month long for free[though if you run > it for half the month, since that is 7.5GB on average for the month it will > be free!] > > I am in the process of resizing the official Alestic Ubuntu images...my aim > is to fit them into a 5GB image so in theory you could run 2 of them and only > pay for the extra hours. Also pre-installing a decent LAMP[and NAMP] > environment and maybe a one click Joomla/Drupal setup. > > Note: I find that it is 613MB of memory DOES sometimes have a problem with > installing some of the heftier apps[it stalled on installing the Java based > Amazon EC2 tools] - so at times you will need to run the heftier small image > size where you get over 1.5GB of memory... you can launch an EBS based AMI > from any Amazon package....but to take full advantage of them you need to run > them through the api or command line so you can attach your ephermeral > storage on boot.
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