Talk:Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

EC2 seems like a commercial trading name or trademark, etc. I believe this is a pretty basic commercial article. It is probably a weakness of Wikipedia that it makes it too easy to create a new article. Now Wikipedia is established, the rate of arrival of concepts new to Wikipedia has dropped off quite markedly. Maybe it is time for a slightly more restrictive policy regarding who can create what kind of new articles why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jjalexand (talk • contribs) 14:29, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Just pointing on that this remark on Wikipedia policy has nothing to do with the content of the article.Wtsao (talk) 22:49, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Today's massive outage, which affected a number of social websites, is not mentioned. Indeed, the introduction gives a concrete reason why this service is claimed to be reliable. An encyclopedia is not the place for biased coverage of a flawed commercial service. At least let some time go by, then write a balanced article. -- David_Spector 74.65.139.79 (talk) 19:06, 21 April 2011 (UTC)

Encyclopaedia or Advertisement ?

The article scans a little bit like an advert, more NPOV would be better, plus mention of competition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.104.212.36 (talk) 09:48, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Competition is listed in the See Also, in the Cloud computing template and at the article's parent article. However it could be formatted better in this article. Perhaps you should edit the article WP:BOLD --Abc518 (talk) 14:46, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Removed the advert tag. There is always room for improvement but a tag is distracting so there has to be a good strong reason for putting it there.Wtsao (talk) 22:46, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Well there certainly is in this case. It reads like an Amazon publicist's copy. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 00:23, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

History?

I think it would be helpful to have some history on EC2. When was EC2 launched? I'm trying to compare various "cloud" technologies, particularly when they were launched.

EC2 always basically went into a "second" phase recently, when instance storage and IPs could be persistent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.251.80.98 (talk) 17:58, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Added some more history --Abc518 (talk) 17:12, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Pricing?

I think whoever put in the $73/mo price is on something. I ran a test using Amazon's calculator and got $23/mo for a single, continuously running "small" Linux instance with 1Gb data in and 2Gb out, but I'm not confident enough in what I entered in that to change the Wiki page... StaticSan (talk) 23:35, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Right you are, for Reserved Instances. You pay a non-refundable fee for an instance that's tied to a Region and Availability Zone, then pay a reduced rate for however much you use it, see the Reserved Instances on the Pricing page for those rates. $325/year, $500/3 years and $0.03/hour ($0.04/hour in Europe) for a small Linux/UNIX instance, for a total of $50/month or $37/month.

So you could set up your system with an On-Demand Instance and see if it's going to get used enough, and then reserve one for $23/month less. Not as Elastic, but could be a good deal, especially if you have a reliable baseline you serve with 1-20 (the normal limit) Reserved Instances and then surge with On-Demand Instances as needed. Hga (talk) 12:38, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Keep in mind that the savings is directly related to how often the instance is used. If you use your instance about 1/4 of the time you end up breaking even with on-demand prices, of you use it less than that then you actually pay more. If you use it every hour of the 3 years then you pay less than half. I am not sure that applying direct mathematics to a primary source's information is original research, what do other people think? Chillum 14:56, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Instance?

It would be helpful for those of us who are non-tecchies if this page could link to a reliable definition of what an instance is. This term seems fundamental to understanding the EC2. I've looked at the current entries for the term on Wikipedia, there are several, and none explain wtf it means in terms that an ordinary person, who is not an IT specialist, can understand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sudfa (talk • contribs) 10:59, 10 February 2010 (UTC) The closest that I can find with a quick Google search is here: [1], which I shall add, but I am sure someone else can do better. Sudfa —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sudfa (talk • contribs) 11:03, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

PSN hack made through Amazon EC2

source Twobells (talk)

wording

What is this supposed to mean: "Charges are applied on demand so the credit need not be used in the first month."? It's in the "free tier" section. 188.25.99.206 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:28, 7 February 2012 (UTC).