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Amazon EC2 Rails roundup: 2 small instances vs 1 high CPU medium instance

May 19, 2009 No comments yet

A typical setup for a (small) web application is to have 2 tiers, one for the database and one for the application/web. Amazon EC2 offers a variety of different instances, starting form small to extra large high CPU instances. A high CPU medium instance costs double of a small instance. This raises the question, is [...]

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The 600 USD command

April 6, 2009 No comments yet

I recently switched an Amazon instance to the new Amazon reserved instances price scheme. At first I was confused how to do that. Amazon doesn’t provide an interface for buying a preserved. In fact you have to use the EC2 tools and command line to do. I am comfortable to use the command line, however, [...]

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Amazon EC2 preserved instances pricing scheme

April 6, 2009 No comments yet

A couple of weeks ago, Amazon released a new pricing scheme for EC2. In short, you now have the option to prepay EC2 instances and then pay a smaller hourly rate. The hourly rates are:

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