Re: Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-14 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Hi Amos. It means you make use of an instance which is very quick to load. Removing non-esential services, or postponing them to after Jira starts, using a lightweight system, etc. If you can remove boot-time hogs, you can reach a fast-booting system. A script using Amazon API will prepare it for y

OT: Invoice sites in English

2015-01-14 Thread Geoff Shang
Hi, Please forgive the offtopic post, but I figure someone here would know. I was recently told by my new accountant that I need to provide invoices ina form the Israeli government will approve, and not as text files as I've been doing so far (hey I'm a traditionalist). They pointed me to iC

Re: Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-14 Thread Amos Shapira
Thanks Etzion. Yes you are on the same track as me. An unmapped Elastic IP will cost $3.65/month, which is a significant amount in comparison to the numbers I'm looking at skimming, so you are probably right about using a no-ip address. Finding the instance IP is a matter of a trivial "curl" cal

Re: Skimping on AWS EC2 bills

2015-01-14 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
Hi Amos, Etzion, You are talking about 15 seconds for bringing up the machine, and about shutting down the machine according to idleness detection. Last time I checked (and maybe I am not up-to-date), 1. It took about two minutes to bring up the machine. 2. Amazon charged per full hour. That is, i