Is Amazon EC2 Worth The Cost?
We have been considering using Amazon EC2 to launch our next Third Rail project, but I’m having trouble justifying the cost. I was under the impression that Amazon charged you $0.10 per cpu hour but I misread and it’s really just per hour. So that mean to run one instance for a month would cost ~$72 dollars a month. Not that great when you consider other VPS companies charge ~$50 a month for an equivalent spec virtual machine. I suppose the benefit of using Amazon is you can quickly scale you server instances. But since Amazon doesn’t support static IPs you really have to build a lot of logic around configuring a server to plug into your architecture quickly. I guess I’m not completely sold on Amazon EC2 yet. I’ll see how it works with our next project and let you know.
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