[okfn-help] Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2

[Friedrich Lindenberg]

Could be a reason to think about building and distributing a CKAN AMI, I think.

On Sep 9, 2010, at 11:14 AM, James Casbon wrote:

> 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?

Yes, there was a bug in the offenedaten plugin used by de.ckan.net that seems apparently caused the outages. 

I'm still a bit worried about the load on eu8 (which is mostly hosting de.ckan without the plugin at the moment):
http://munin.eu1.okfn.org/okfn.org/eu7.okfn.org-load.html

Friedrich 


> 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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