[Ilugc] [OT]AWS experiences?
- From: prem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Prem Kurian Philip)
- Date: Sat Sep 19 19:17:21 2009
From: Mano <manokaran@xxxxxxxxx>
Anyone here has used Amazon Web Services? Any idea how much it costs per
month to run a simple application which might have about 1000 users (50
concurrent at any given time) and generates about a GB of data per month? I
went through their website. It gives me a headache :-). Would be grateful if
someone can translate it in plain english - like, how much it'll cost per
month at a minimum!!
And how does it compare with slices from Linode or Slicehost?
I haven't used Linode or Slicehost so I cannot comment on them. However,
we have deployed multiple apps on Amazon EC2. You are right - the pricing
system is very complicated.
For the type of usage you are looking at (50 concurrent users), you will
most likely have to go for what is known as High-CPU Medium (c1.medium)
instance type. That is Amazon speak for the type and nature of the
machine image instance. The type of instance determines how much RAM and
CPU is available to your instance.
For your usage, the pricing will be around USD 170 - USD 200/- or so a month.
This is a very rough ballpark figure which takes into account that you
will have just one instance running and that you will use some space
(approx 100 GB) in Amazon S3 for persistent storage. If you are looking at
hosting the database on a separate instance and replicating the database
onto yet another instance and so on, the cost will grow drastically.
Regards,
Prem
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