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The Lightsail instance comes with 4TB/mo of free transfer. Even using a small fraction of that transfer on EC2 will cost you more than the instance itself. Als

by kijin 6y ago

The Lightsail instance comes with 4TB/mo of free transfer. Even using a small fraction of that transfer on EC2 will cost you more than the instance itself. Also, creating an instance on Lightsail isn't exactly a monthly commitment. You are free to delete your instance at any time and only pay for the hours you used. It's a lot more flexible than the multi-year commitment you need to make in order to get the best pricing out of EC2.

whoisjohnkid 6y ago
Keep in mind that lightsail charges you for inbound and outbound data transfer; whereas EC2 only charges for outbound ... so depending on your network usage the 4TB isn’t a guaranteed saving.
byefruit 6y ago
Yea and 4TB is $360 which dwarfs everything else.
- PhantomGremlin 6y ago
  Okay, I don't get this at all!???? If I want to move 400 TB per month out of Amazon, why can't I just proxy it thru 100 Lightsail instances? Isn't that much cheaper than paying directly per byte? For that much saving it's probably worth figuring out how to do this. It can't be hard. Isn't it "free" to move data internally to a lightsail instance, as long as both are in the same DC?
  - nordsieck 6y ago
    > If I want to move 400 TB per month out of Amazon, why can't I just proxy it thru 100 Lightsail instances? There are some answers in the lightsail faq[1]: 1. You're limited to 20 instances per account. They'll increase that number on a case-by-case basis, but probably not if you're planning on proxying all your traffic through those instances. 2. If you delete an instance and create a new one, they share the same data transfer allowance. 3. All data transfer (both egress and ingress) applies to the data transfer allowance. It may still be worth doing the proxy setup, but Amazon seems to have pretty clearly set up limits to make it less desirable. ___ 1. https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/faq/ https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/faq/

by kijin 6y ago

whoisjohnkid 6y ago

Keep in mind that lightsail charges you for inbound and outbound data transfer; whereas EC2 only charges for outbound ... so depending on your network usage the 4TB isn’t a guaranteed saving.

byefruit 6y ago

Yea and 4TB is $360 which dwarfs everything else.

PhantomGremlin 6y ago
Okay, I don't get this at all!???? If I want to move 400 TB per month out of Amazon, why can't I just proxy it thru 100 Lightsail instances? Isn't that much cheaper than paying directly per byte? For that much saving it's probably worth figuring out how to do this. It can't be hard. Isn't it "free" to move data internally to a lightsail instance, as long as both are in the same DC?
- nordsieck 6y ago
  > If I want to move 400 TB per month out of Amazon, why can't I just proxy it thru 100 Lightsail instances? There are some answers in the lightsail faq[1]: 1. You're limited to 20 instances per account. They'll increase that number on a case-by-case basis, but probably not if you're planning on proxying all your traffic through those instances. 2. If you delete an instance and create a new one, they share the same data transfer allowance. 3. All data transfer (both egress and ingress) applies to the data transfer allowance. It may still be worth doing the proxy setup, but Amazon seems to have pretty clearly set up limits to make it less desirable. ___ 1. https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/faq/ https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/faq/