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There are many different instance types. The 12 month free eligible type is t2.micro which comes with 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM. The value of this VM is about $0.01 per hour ($0.01 * 720 = $7.20) and includes 30 GB-mo of storage ($0.1 * 30 = $3).
There are many different instance types. The 12 month free eligible type is t2.micro which comes with 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 15GB Outbound Bandwidth. The value of the t2.micro VM in US East (Ohio):
* $0.01 per hour * 720 hours/month ($7.20)
* $0.1 per GB/mo storage * 30 GB ($3)
* $0.09 per GB/mo bandwidth * 15 GB per month ($1.35 - $0.09 as 1st GB is free)


Prices for the t2 instances can be found at https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/t2/.
Prices for the t2 instances and EC2 in general can be found at:
* https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/t2/
* https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/


== CPU Credits ==
== CPU Credits ==
Burstable instances such as the t2 instances have CPU credits. VMs accumulate a certain amount of credit every hour, depending on the instance type and uses credits when consuming more CPU than some threshold.
Burstable instances such as the t2 instances have CPU credits. VMs accumulate a certain amount of credit every hour, depending on the instance type and uses credits when consuming more CPU than some threshold.

Revision as of 04:37, 13 September 2019

Some notes on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Pricing

There are 4 models for Amazon Elastic Compute (EC2):

On-Demand Instances
Pay per hour or per second
Reserved
Discounted up to 75% compared to On-Demand but must commit to a 1 or 3 year term
Spot Instances
Request spare computing capacity by making a bid and having it fulfilled when the price drops below your bid
Dedicated Hosts

There are many different instance types. The 12 month free eligible type is t2.micro which comes with 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 15GB Outbound Bandwidth. The value of the t2.micro VM in US East (Ohio):

  • $0.01 per hour * 720 hours/month ($7.20)
  • $0.1 per GB/mo storage * 30 GB ($3)
  • $0.09 per GB/mo bandwidth * 15 GB per month ($1.35 - $0.09 as 1st GB is free)

Prices for the t2 instances and EC2 in general can be found at:

CPU Credits

Burstable instances such as the t2 instances have CPU credits. VMs accumulate a certain amount of credit every hour, depending on the instance type and uses credits when consuming more CPU than some threshold.