I'm not completely sure on my bandwidth usage. I installed a basic LAMP stack, email server stack, emacs, and a few other bits and then played around for an hour.
it would be great if you could convince your employer to release some stats on the running total number of 1 hour instances created under this program. Or if not a running total perhaps a total at the 1 month mark.
I went through the hoops and started one up to try it out and then shut it down it down with shutdown -h in under a minute because my conscience wouldn't let me spend the full hours worth of Canonical's money since I had no intention of using it for anything. I just wanted to try the initiation process..which is very well done.
But lets say someone does what I did and terminates it early and wants to restart it to get the rest of the 1 hour demo. How would they go about restarting it once terminated?
Several thousand instances have run since the Ubuntu 10.10 release (on 10/10/10 at 10:10 UTC), less than 4 days ago. That's approximately one instance launched every 1-2 minutes this week. While those numbers aren't earth-shattering, I'm quite proud of them, particularly considering we haven't really seen any prominent news sources advertising the offer yet. I think it's been largely word-of-mouth at this point.
Amazon bills in 1-hour increments, so we paid for a full hour of your usage, whether you ran for 59 seconds, or 59 minutes. Thank you for your concern, though.
This program is launching Amazon's m1.small instance size. You can see at http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ that this costs Canonical about $0.085/hour, which is far less than a printed CD.
Dustin, Are you able to look at a running total? If a laypress story does come out it would be interesting to see if you can identify the resulting bump in the running trend.
Interestingly, when I tried this yesterday, it cost just over a dime--at least according to byobu's ec2-cost status notifier. :-)
ReplyDeleteRight, the ec2-cost notifier also takes into account network activity. How much bandwidth did you use? :-)
ReplyDelete:-Dustin
I'm not completely sure on my bandwidth usage. I installed a basic LAMP stack, email server stack, emacs, and a few other bits and then played around for an hour.
ReplyDeleteDustin,
ReplyDeleteit would be great if you could convince your employer to release some stats on the running total number of 1 hour instances created under this program. Or if not a running total perhaps a total at the 1 month mark.
I went through the hoops and started one up to try it out and then shut it down it down with shutdown -h in under a minute because my conscience wouldn't let me spend the full hours worth of Canonical's money since I had no intention of using it for anything. I just wanted to try the initiation process..which is very well done.
But lets say someone does what I did and terminates it early and wants to restart it to get the rest of the 1 hour demo. How would they go about restarting it once terminated?
-jef
Jef,
ReplyDeleteSeveral thousand instances have run since the Ubuntu 10.10 release (on 10/10/10 at 10:10 UTC), less than 4 days ago. That's approximately one instance launched every 1-2 minutes this week. While those numbers aren't earth-shattering, I'm quite proud of them, particularly considering we haven't really seen any prominent news sources advertising the offer yet. I think it's been largely word-of-mouth at this point.
Amazon bills in 1-hour increments, so we paid for a full hour of your usage, whether you ran for 59 seconds, or 59 minutes. Thank you for your concern, though.
This program is launching Amazon's m1.small instance size. You can see at http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ that this costs Canonical about $0.085/hour, which is far less than a printed CD.
Cheers,
:-Dustin
Dustin,
ReplyDeleteAre you able to look at a running total? If a laypress story does come out it would be interesting to see if you can identify the resulting bump in the running trend.
-jef