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Out of curiosity, how much does that come to per year? Looking at Amazon's EC2 pricing(http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/),
by cube13 14y ago
Out of curiosity, how much does that come to per year?
Looking at Amazon's EC2 pricing(http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/), unless I'm missing something, keeping 7 reserved instances costs about $1000 per year. Even for a small startup, that's a tiny amount of money.
And even if you're using S3 and other services, that's still in the hundreds of dollars per year per service. Again, that won't break the bank, by any stretch of imagination, especially since the cost of maintaining your own equipment would be easily as much, possibly more.
- Udo 14y agoI believe you misunderstood my intentions. I wasn't arguing about whether or not EC2 is too expensive, I was merely trying to guess what kind of reasoning went into the original article. Also, beside the point, but actually running 7 reserved instances will cost way, way more than $1000 per year.
- cube13 14y agoThe article seems to indicate that a lot of people aren't utilizing 100% of their instances and are just wasting money. I'm honestly curious how much this could be.