Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

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Post by tluthra » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:24 PM UTC

Amazon EC2 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
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Post by applecore » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:36 PM UTC

This is huge. Startups everywhere are huge beneficiaries of this price war between Amazon and Google over the future of cloud computing.

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Post by j-rom » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:41 PM UTC

Just out of curiosity, why would one choose AWS over Digital Ocean? Isn't DO considerably cheaper?

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Post by toomuchtodo » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:43 PM UTC

j-rom wrote: post #3

Just out of curiosity, why would one choose AWS over Digital Ocean? Isn't DO considerably cheaper?

Service ecosystem (S3, RDS, SQS, VPCs, Cloudsearch, Elastic Transcoder, to name a few), long-term stability, reliability, support, the ability to peer directly with AWS to name a few.

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Post by seldo » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:46 PM UTC

j-rom wrote: post #3

Just out of curiosity, why would one choose AWS over Digital Ocean? Isn't DO considerably cheaper?

DO's "internal" networking/security group support is still immature. I use DO for personal stuff, but at work we use AWS.

Just never EBS. Ever.

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Post by grosbisou » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:47 PM UTC

seldo wrote: post #5

j-rom wrote: post #3

Just out of curiosity, why would one choose AWS over Digital Ocean? Isn't DO considerably cheaper?

DO's "internal" networking/security group support is still immature. I use DO for personal stuff, but at work we use AWS. Just never EBS. Ever.

What's wrong with EBS? And for what usage?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:47 PM UTC

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Post by seldo » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:50 PM UTC

grosbisou wrote: post #6

seldo wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DO's "internal" networking/security group support is still immature. I use DO for personal stuff, but at work we use AWS. Just never EBS. Ever.

What's wrong with EBS? And for what usage?

http://blog.awe.sm/2012/12/18/aws-the-good-the-bad-and-the-u...

TLDR: it's okay for backups, but in critical path it's a world of sadness. Failure modes are too painful.

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Post by logn » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:51 PM UTC

Wow the c3.8x large drops by almost a dollar/hr.

Cheers to Google.

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Post by tzaman » Wed, Mar 26, 2014, 6:52 PM UTC

j-rom wrote: post #3

Just out of curiosity, why would one choose AWS over Digital Ocean? Isn't DO considerably cheaper?

With Digital Ocean, you only get almost bare VPS hosting (which is not bad per-se, I use them for a couple of personal projects), as with AWS, I get 1-click solution for pretty much anything I need, from S3 and Cloudfront, to Elasticache, hosted PostgreSQL, Route 53, OpsWorks, and numberous others.