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 <avi...@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.shap...@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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> >> > -- <http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer>
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