On 3 June 2013 21:00, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing

A "small" EC2 instance costs 6 cents per hour or $43.80 per average month.
Plus costs for bandwidth and storage. A "micro" instance costs 2 cents per
hour or $14.60 per average month. A small image has 1.7G of RAM and 160G of
local instance storage (which isn't suitable for things like list archives).
A micro instance has 613M of RAM and only EBS storage (which is suitable for
list archives etc but costs).

There are also the reserved instances which costs a lot less if you want a server for a multiple of 1 or 3 years.

A small instance for three years, Heavy utilization (for always on server; means you pay for every hour even if server is offline) is $257 + $0.012 per Hour.

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/#reserved

A year ago I got on the three year reserved plan for $300 + $0.013 per hour. I seem to be paying $10.80 a month (+300/36 = 8.33 or $19.13 a month total), which includes 10GB storage. They did stuff up the original order however (they charged me but didn't give it to me) so check everything carefully to make sure you get the rates you expect.

Looks like the rates have gone down slightly since I started.

Only complaint, would be nice if EC2 offered native IPv6 support. Last I checked they don't, and a quick glance at Google suggests that is still the case.

Brian May