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How does EC2's pricing compare in the early stages? With AppEngine it seems basically free until you reach a certain threshold. Is Amazon comparable, or are you
by marcusbooster 17y ago
How does EC2's pricing compare in the early stages? With AppEngine it seems basically free until you reach a certain threshold. Is Amazon comparable, or are you paying a little bit from the get-go?
I'm interested in having more smaller projects, with a higher rate of failure. GAE seems like a good fit, would Amazon's cloud offering work too, and be more flexible?
- sanswork 17y agoIf you don't need the flexibility in environments than it probably is better for you. I don't develop is Java or Python though and the ways to run other languages aren't really ideal. A small amazon instance will run you about $70 a month so at that level it might be worth it to go elsewhere unless you think you will need the ability to scale up massively fast. In that case though it might be worth getting an Amazon instance configuring it exactly how you want then saving the image and turning it off. You'll only be paying for storage of the image than which is a couple bucks a month and in the event you do need to scale up fast you can bring up the instances and swap your original box into a temporary load balancer for your amazon instances.