Amazon EC2 Windows Instances Discount for April

TheHackBox

I don't know if you have seen this but here is a $50 credit for Windows EC2 instances. http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/global-solution-providers/microsoft/aprilcredit/

Taylor

Thanks got the code but haven't tried using it yet I guess amazon dont do windows lebs :P

NanoG6

Seems like it is applicable on all of their products?

fly

ec2 is way expensive. and the reliability is still questionable.

marrco

dont' forget there's the 1 year free tier for new users too: aws.amazon.com/free

bill32

But S3 is awesome and cheap, especially for backups. (Last month I paid something like 20 cents for 2.5GB of data)

Kuro

EC2 may be expensive for 24/7 use, but it is really great when you occasionally need to quickly process a lot of data. For my uses, works out to be cheaper than an equivalent dedicated server sitting idle ~90% of the month :P

raindog308

Kuro, can you remote start/stop an EC2 box (i.e. from a script)? was thinking if a micro for a few hours/day + persistent ebs as a cheap alternative to s3rsync.

Kuro

@raindog308 Yes, via their API.

Just got my credits

Now to find a use for a Windows box >_>

raindog308

I think I'm going to try just that, @Kuro - firing up an EC2 instance, using it to rsync to EBS, snapshot to S3, etc.

There is an S3 rsync service, but doing it yourself looks to be a lot cheaper. Here is a comparison: http://www.raindog308.com/2012/rolling-your-own-s3-rsync/

lbft

@NanoG6 said: Seems like it is applicable on all of their products?

Most likely it's so that people don't sign up to give it a go and then get surprised by charges from associated services (internet transfer, cross-zone internal transfer, I/O costs, S3/EBS, etc.)

NanoG6

@lbft said: Most likely it's so that people don't sign up to give it a go and then get surprised by charges from associated services (internet transfer, cross-zone internal transfer, I/O costs, S3/EBS, etc.)

Probably it is.. I wanna use their route 53, but because I haven't (and I wont) put my CC details, I'm unable to give it a try even though I have those $50 credit. Crap.

hayhayday

if you have bofa,discover, citi card or a prepaid card(one of those rebate cards or prepaid etc) make a virtual number, register then cancel virtual number. now can use $50 and not worry about billing

pcan

I just signed-up to the AWS free tier offer. I now have a 600 Mb RAM VPS, free for one full year, at the Singapore location. To my knowledge, Amazon is the only free Singapore (or Tokio) LEB offer at the moment. The micro istance has no local storage and the EBS storage is pretty slow, but it works. Benchmark with the Ubuntu 11.10 server standard AWS template.

dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 31.2628 s, 34.3 MB/s

wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2012-04-09 20:30:51--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 204.93.150.150
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|204.93.150.150|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 2.19M/s   in 27s

2012-04-09 20:31:18 (3.72 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

tommy

time for Windows LEB?