Test Driving An Amazon EC2 Micro Instance
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Last month Amazon Web Services launched Micro Instances for EC2, the lowest-cost instance type they have offered to date. A Micro instance includes 613MB of memory and can support 32- and 64-bit platforms on both Linux and Windows operating systems.
The pricing begins at $0.02 per hour for Linux and $0.03 per hour for Windows. In addition, a Micro instance supports Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for defining applications, data structures and databases in addition to configurations. Amazon is also including a templated image to get up and running quickly with a Micro instance as well.
Greg Wilson, who is a Sr. Technical Evangelist for Adobe Systems, produced one of the best tutorials and test drives available, which is shown below. He has also written a blog entry regarding lessons learned which can be found at My dive into the world of Amazon EC2 and the new crazy cheap Micro instance.
Bottom line: Micro instances are going to shift cloud-based development away from compute- and data-intensive application development to smaller applications and web services. Given the price point, the use of Micro instances could lead to a proliferation of new low-end, utilitarian-like applications as well.
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