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Contents 1 Document high-cpu instances 2 Encyclopaedia or Advertisement ? 3 History? 4 Selling and Buying Time 5 Pricing?

[edit] Document high-cpu instances

They've added some instance types for CPU-intensive applications, which is proving very interesting for people who want low-end HPC. They should be added to the list. Donal Fellows (talk) 10:36, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Encyclopaedia or Advertisement ?

The article scans a little bit like an advert, more NPOV would be better, plus mention of competition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.104.212.36 (talk) 09:48, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Competition is listed in the See Also, in the Cloud computing template and at the article's parent article. However it could be formatted better in this article. Perhaps you should edit the article WP:BOLD --Abc518 (talk) 14:46, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] History?

I think it would be helpful to have some history on EC2. When was EC2 launched? I'm trying to compare various "cloud" technologies, particularly when they were launched.

EC2 always basically went into a "second" phase recently, when instance storage and IPs could be persistent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.251.80.98 (talk) 17:58, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Added some more history --Abc518 (talk) 17:12, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Selling and Buying Time

I'm interested to know if with Amazon EC2, you can sell computing time and not just purchase it. That's the impression I got with the Eucalyptus package in Ubuntu. Altonbr (talk) 13:18, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

I am almost certain that you cannot sell computing time to EC2. Eucalyptus is an independent project that allows people to run their own clouds that allows EC2 clients as an interface. While you can of course sell these resources, it is not connected to EC2 other than the API protocols. ^Chillum 21:51, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Pricing?

I think whoever put in the $73/mo price is on something. I ran a test using Amazon's calculator and got $23/mo for a single, continuously running "small" Linux instance with 1Gb data in and 2Gb out, but I'm not confident enough in what I entered in that to change the Wiki page... StaticSan (talk) 23:35, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Right you are, for Reserved Instances. You pay a non-refundable fee for an instance that's tied to a Region and Availability Zone, then pay a reduced rate for however much you use it, see the Reserved Instances on the Pricing page for those rates. $325/year, $500/3 years and $0.03/hour ($0.04/hour in Europe) for a small Linux/UNIX instance, for a total of $50/month or $37/month.

So you could set up your system with an On-Demand Instance and see if it's going to get used enough, and then reserve one for $23/month less. Not as Elastic, but could be a good deal, especially if you have a reliable baseline you serve with 1-20 (the normal limit) Reserved Instances and then surge with On-Demand Instances as needed. Hga (talk) 12:38, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Keep in mind that the savings is directly related to how often the instance is used. If you use your instance about 1/4 of the time you end up breaking even with on-demand prices, of you use it less than that then you actually pay more. If you use it every hour of the 3 years then you pay less than half. I am not sure that applying direct mathematics to a primary source's information is original research, what do other people think? Chillum 14:56, 11 September 2009 (UTC)