On 11/16/2010 3:18 PM, Jerry B. Altzman wrote:
on 11/16/2010 1:58 PM Gary Mort said the following:
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.
Like everything else, beware that if you go over on ANYTHING, they
bill you. And it's only free the first year, after that, they bill
you. Nothing in life is free. :-)
Well, I figured I am posting on the NYPHP list, so anyone here concerned
about going over would simply write their own monitoring script using
the Amazon PHP class libraries... :-)
Seriously though, I've gotten very tired of doing things from the
command line and while the various dashboards are nice...either their in
Java(yuck!) or they don't do what I want, so I figure I'm going to be
writing a simple dashboard/monitor anyway - I hadn't considered of
monitoring usage against the free tiers, but now that you mention it,
that's a good idea.
For me, the "free" micro hours are useful as it lets me model things
like setting up apps to monitor load on a set of instances and then spin
up extra servers as load goes up. Something I wouldn't want to go out
of control on a pay per hour system[as even one mistake can be pricey],
but with 750 free hours a month, I could muck up and launch 100
duplicate instances and still only be down 100 "Free" hours.
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