Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

Tue Jan 13 12:28:51 IST 2015

Etzion, just a question: "Amos 0 if you can customise your instance to be
very very light," - what do you mean by that?

Your description is close to what I have in mind.

As for the changing IP address - this can be easily overcome using Elastic
IP and/or no-ip.com and friends.

Thanks,

--Amos

On 13 January 2015 at 08:11, Etzion Bar-Noy <ezaton at tournament.org.il>
wrote:

> Except that NUC costs about 700+ ILS (I have three. I know. This is the
> Celeron version).
> Amos 0 if you can customise your instance to be very very light, and it
> can startup in about 15 seconds or so, it is acceptable to have it
> on-demand. You can wrap it in a script (using AWS API and tools) to just
> start it up. Since it will be about 15 seconds boot/startup time, you will
> find that very economical, and very simple to achieve. In any case,
> considering your requirements, this does seem to be the most simple and
> easy solution. Note that your IP *will* change each time you start your
> instance, so your API interface should also tell you what's the IP address
> of the machine (or you could use some no-dns service, but it will probably
> be slower).
>
> Etzion
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:57 PM, E.S. Rosenberg <esr+linux-il at g.jct.ac.il>
> wrote:
>
>> I don't know what type of load JIRA presents but for low load private
>> stuff a raspberrypi or something similar (for heavier but still fairly
>> 'light' stuff maybe an Intel NUC system or a mini-itx system) at home +
>> noip/dyndns or some other form of locating it by yourself can be more then
>> enough....
>>
>> 2015-01-08 11:37 GMT+02:00 Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> I was thinking about running it on my own laptop, and perhaps I will.
>>>
>>> But that would mean leaving it on around the clock which I don't want to
>>> (I'm very conscious of power consumption, both economically and
>>> environmentally), and I don't carry it with me most of the time but would
>>> like to have access to my server from both my mobile and workplace.
>>>
>>> On 8 January 2015 at 19:59, Vitaly <linux at karasik.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Amos,
>>>> IMHO, it's not technical, but more  "human" issue. For example, as far
>>>> as you decide that you need Jira every last day of month, you can launch
>>>> instance automatically.
>>>> But typically Jira usage is more random, so I don't think  there is
>>>> technical solution exist.
>>>> If you're the only Jira user, why don't run it from your own computer
>>>> for free?
>>>>
>>>> And, BTW, AWS reserved instances allow you to modify everything; plus
>>>> up-front pay isn't must anymore.
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>> Vitaly
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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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