Amazon EC2 hosting,

[shimi]

2010/10/10 Ori Idan <ori at helicontech.co.il>

>
> I am considering using EC2 for a web application.
> I am not sure how to calculate the payment per month.
> Do I pay only for the time someone makes a request?
> For example, I have a user who requests a certain report and it takes 1
> second to load the report request form, then 20 seconds to produce the
> report and print it.
> I understand that I pay for 21 seconds?
> So if I have 100 customers doing the same thing each day, I pay for 35
> minutes (2100 seconds)?
>
> It seems to be very cheap.
>
>
>
Pretty simple. Each instance has a price per hour (or part of it). Multiply
the price per hour, per number of hours your instance runs (for a server,
that would be 24/7, which means 672 [Feb] /720 [30d months] / 744 [31d
months] hours a month), and you have your price. Add to that your network
traffic and EBS storage if used, and that's how much you're going to pay.

I wouldn't call that cheap...

In general I believe that using the Cloud is good only for people who
upscale/downscale their platform all the time (for example, use X4 the power
only 1/4 of the day) - or for people who set up and teardown demo's all the
time and cannot talk a virtualization platform with them.... On probably any
other scenario, a VPS/your own server in colocation is considerably cheaper
IMHO. But perhaps that's just me.

HTH,

-- Shimi
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