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Wait what about this announcement? I thought this meant that FreeBSD is now the same status as Linux on EC2. I know originally there was an extra charge for W
by chubot 14y ago
Wait what about this announcement? I thought this meant that FreeBSD is now the same status as Linux on EC2. I know originally there was an extra charge for Windows instances, and you had to make your own AMI. But isn't this saying it's official? This is from November 2012, so very recent.
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/11/aws-marketplace-additional-operating-system-support.html http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/11/aws-marketplace-additiona...
"These operating systems come directly from the Open Source community and are available at no charge other than the usual cost for the EC2 instances. You can find them in the Operating Systems section of the Marketplace"
- jedberg 14y agoUnfortunately it is HVM only, or you have to run it on Windows instances, which means a portion of that money goes to Microsoft. What I mean by first class is that it will run on every instance type, including a micro, so I can make a FreeBSD shellhost for $8/mo, for example.
- cperciva 14y agoFWIW, in us-east-1, t1.micro is $0.02/hour for both UNIX and Windows. (Yay rounding errors!)