[okfn-help] Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2

Thu Sep 9 10:14:36 BST 2010

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?

On 9 September 2010 10:12, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> 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 <no-reply-aws at amazon.com>
> 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
>
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