[Cialug] Don't try EC2 until Nov

[Matthew Nuzum]

If you've not yet tried EC2 then wait until Nov. Starting then, if you sign
up as a new customer you get basically a year's basic service for free:
http://aws.amazon.com/free/

You get (these are all per month)

   - 750 hours of EC2 micro instance (610MB RAM, dual core, low priority
   i.e. a baby VM)
   - 10 GB of Elastic Block Storage, which basically means a 10GB disk for
   your EC2 instance. Really, storage is so cheap though... $0.10/mo per GB so
   if you made it 100GB it'd only $0.90/mo
   - 5GB S3 storage (again, not a big savings)
   - 15GB in and out bandwidth
   - 25 hours of Simple DB usage (that's plenty)
   - 100,000 request of Simple Queue (again, plenty) and Simple Notification
   Service (seems a lot to me)

These last two bullets are actually free for everyone, even if you're not a
new user.

If you have an app you're building and you want to see how it scales when
you run it across 10 EC2 instances, you could test it in this configuration
for 3 days straight per month and be within your free plan (you don't have
to run one instance continuously for a month).

We use EC2 at work for doing tests on apps. It frees up your workstation for
actual work. The micro instances here are nice because they're so cheap
$0.02/hour and they're EBS backed so you can use persistence.

-- 
Matthew Nuzum
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