[Cialug] Fwd: Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2

[Matthew Nuzum]

EC2 has been a very cheap way to experiment with servers in the past
at $0.075 per hour but that ran to $54/mo if you used it full time.
This new instance brings the price down to $14 /mo for a full time
instance which puts it into the same ballpark as a linode ($20/mo but
not an apples to apples comparison).

613MB of RAM doesn't seem like a ton but on my Cobalt RAQ2 I ran
nearly 100 websites (php, mysql, html) with 256MB of RAM. I currently
use 512MB VMs for all kinds of work loads.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Amazon Web Services <no-reply-aws at amazon.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:21 AM
Subject: Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2

Dear Amazon EC2 Customer,

We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Micro
instances for Amazon EC2, a new, low cost instance type designed for
lower throughput applications and web sites.

Micro instances provide 613 MB of memory and support 32-bit and 64-bit
platforms on both Linux and Windows. Micro instance pricing for
On-Demand instances starts at $0.02 per hour for Linux and $0.03 per
hour for Windows.

Customers have asked us for a lower priced instance type that could
satisfy the needs of their less demanding applications. Micro
instances are optimized for applications that require lower
throughput, but which still may consume significant compute cycles
periodically. Micro instances provide a small amount of consistent CPU
resources, and also allow you to burst CPU capacity when additional
cycles are available.

Micro instances are available immediately in all regions, and we
invite you to go and try one out for yourself today! Learn more about
Amazon EC2's new Micro instances at aws.amazon.com/ec2.

Sincerely,

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