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Re: Show HN: Amazon EC2 instance comparison table

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Post by izendejas » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 9:46 PM UTC

powdahound wrote: post #2

Made this a while back because I was sick of the way Amazon's instance info ( http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ ) and pricing info ( http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ ) were on different pages in a hard-to-browse format. Hoping this helps people compare and choose new instances following yesterday's troubles.

This is very helpful, thanks. I also hate Amazon's tables.

You should put up a donation link.

Re: Show HN: Amazon EC2 instance comparison table

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Post by DenisM » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 10:56 PM UTC

For all those asking about reserved-instance data, I posted this a few months back. Somewhat surprisingly, I didn't get any interest back then.

http://blog.altudov.com/2010/11/03/amazon-ec2-reserved-insta...

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ah1sNhjIaHmVdFQzSk5...

Re: Show HN: Amazon EC2 instance comparison table

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Post by pzb » Fri, Apr 22, 2011, 11:12 PM UTC

roschdal wrote: post #21

Great work! Could you please add the Ec2 Suse instance types to the table, for comparison? I haven't been able to compare the Cpu performance of the Suse instance type compared to the standard types.

The raw CPU performance of the SUSE and regular Linux instances is identical. The difference is purely the Operating System. On the SUSE instances, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is preinstalled and all updates are automatically available. You do not need a separate subscription from Novell. With the base instances you need to provide your own OS license/subscription as applicable.

(Disclaimer: I'm responsible for the AMIs for SUSE)

Re: Show HN: Amazon EC2 instance comparison table

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Post by aaronblohowiak » Sat, Apr 23, 2011, 4:34 AM UTC

aw3c2 wrote: post #27

pauldino wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want ec2instances.info without the www to work you might consider using WWWizer ( http://www.wwwizer.com/ ) Basically you can point any domain's A record to 174.129.25.170 and it will redirect you to the www subdomain.

Or you use a .htacess and do not give a random person control over your domain. Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on rewritecond %{http_host} ^ec2instances.info [nc] rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.ec2instances.info/$1 [r=301,nc]

If you registered it with GoDaddy, you can use their free domain parking service.

Re: Show HN: Amazon EC2 instance comparison table

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Post by billpg » Sat, Apr 23, 2011, 9:04 AM UTC

Wow, a site using the .info domain showing info.

Will a site using .biz for honest business be next?