Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

[Aviram Jenik]

I'm not an AWS expert and would love to hear from those who are. But we do
have a few (dozen) instances on AWS.

We have them running 24/7. I get that you could start and stop on demand,
but don't get how you would do that without changing the way you work in a
drastic way (compared to a physical machine). To save costs, buy a
'reserved instance'. You are paying up front for 1-3 years (I recommend 3
years) and then paying a very very low cost per hour. If your load is low,
buy the 'low load' machine to save even more costs (but then you pay hire
fees if you cross the threshold). I don't know how this works well enough -
we always buy the 'high load' instance and buy them for 3 years; the total
average cost is equivalent to what we would have paid for the hosting and
so the hardware is "free".


- Aviram



On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Do people here keep EC2 instances running?
> Do you leave it running 24/7 or do you fire them up when you need them?
>
> I'd like to run my own EC2 instance running $10 Jira + $10 Confluence
> (+$10 some extra useful add-ons) (to clarify - these are one-off $10 for
> each product), but can't justify running a $30/month small EC2 (and perhaps
> more, Jira alone requires 1.5-2GB of RAM) just to be used at most a few
> hours a month if not less.
>
> But logging in to the console to fire it up (or through aws cli, or using
> an Android based app) every time I want to access it also would be
> inconvenient.
>
> So is there another way?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Amos
>
>
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