Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

[Amos Shapira]

Yes I'm well aware of the RI option. It can save up to %70 for high-load
(i.e. machines which are up 24/7), but much less saving compared to
something that you can keep bringing up and down on demand.
Also the up-front cost is not cheap, and commits you to that type of
instance (as far as I remember, you can't buy switch or upgrade an RI slot,
what's paid is paid).

On 8 January 2015 at 12:47, Aviram Jenik <aviram at jenik.com> wrote:

> 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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