AWS Launches Its Smallest And Cheapest EC2 Instance Type Yet
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Earlier this year, at its re:Invent developer conference in Las Vegas, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing platform announced that it would soon launch a very small (but burstable) instance type for its EC2 computing service. These new t2.nano instances are now live.
Running these new instances in Amazon’s US regions will only cost $4.75 per month (or$0.0065 per hour) — making them the lowest-priced EC2 instances yet. If you pay upfront for a year, that price goes down to $0.0045 per hour with no upfront payments. Prices in other regions are somewhat higher.
The new instances will feature 512 MiB of memory and one virtual CPU core that is burstable.
Amazon says these new instances will work best for developer environments, low-traffic website hosting and running micro services — basically anything that doesn’t need a lot of memory and sustained high levels of CPU power. Amazon Chief Evangelist Jeff Barr also notes that he expects to see a lot of t2.nano usage for training and education settings.
By default, AWS’s burstable t2 instances offer a baseline CPU performance that’s lower than you would expect from having access to a full virtual CPU on AWS, but whenever your CPU usage falls under 5 percent, you get CPU credits that you can then use to burst performance over this baseline.
The nano instances can run 32bit and 64bit operating systems. Amazon doesn’t exactly recommend you run Windows on these machines (and if you do, you may want to use the Server Core AMI), but if you insist, it won’t stop you.
The new instances are now available in a number of AWS regions, including US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (San Francisco), EU (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Brazil (Sao Paolo), and the GovCloud (US) region. Support in EU (Frankfurt) and Australia (Sydney) is coming soon.
The launch of the new t2.nano instance type rounds out Amazon’s family of burstable instances for EC2. The company already offers micro, small, medium and large t2 instances, too.
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For 1 core, and 512MB RAM:
Amazon EC2 $0.0065/Hour ( $0.0029/Hour - Reserved Instance/3 years/Paid All Upfront.)
DigitalOcean $0.007/Hour
Vultr $0.007/Hour (768MB RAM)Does Amazon give you features that something like digital ocean doesn't provide?
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t2.nano at just $76 for 3 years, makes a great ScreenConnect host
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Does anyone use Amazon Linux?
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@anonymous said:
Does Amazon give you features that something like digital ocean doesn't provide?
Yes, so many we could spend all day trying to list them. But few you'd care about unless you were big and none for free.
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@anonymous said:
Does anyone use Amazon Linux?
Yup, crazy numbers of people. It's one of the most popular distros for enterprise workloads. I've used it a lot.
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Opps. I got a Amazon VPC not a standard linux VM. Is this a problem?
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@anonymous said:
Opps. I got a Amazon VPC not a standard linux VM. Is this a problem?
Well they are completely different things. One is a the start of a private cloud without any VMs. The other is a VM. So they overlap in no way. Having a VPC isn't bad, but it won't do anything until you add VMs to it.
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@scottalanmiller So can I still use it for Screenconnect?
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@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller So can I still use it for Screenconnect?
It's a network without VMs. There is no place to install anything. A VPC does nothing on its own. It's just a place to "collect" VMs. You still need the VMs.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller So can I still use it for Screenconnect?
It's a network without VMs. There is no place to install anything. A VPC does nothing on its own. It's just a place to "collect" VMs. You still need the VMs.
So if he keeps is and all he wants is a single small VM, then he's paying for something (VPC) he doesn't need, right?
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@Dashrender That's my question! Thanks!
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller So can I still use it for Screenconnect?
It's a network without VMs. There is no place to install anything. A VPC does nothing on its own. It's just a place to "collect" VMs. You still need the VMs.
So if he keeps is and all he wants is a single small VM, then he's paying for something (VPC) he doesn't need, right?
Yeah, the VPC does nothing on its own. It's like having a VLAN but no switch yet
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Called Amazon, they gave me a full refund.
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@scottalanmiller Does anyone use Amazon Linux?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@anonymous said:
Does anyone use Amazon Linux?
Yup, crazy numbers of people. It's one of the most popular distros for enterprise workloads. I've used it a lot.
See answer above
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@scottalanmiller so it's basically red hat?
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@anonymous said:
@scottalanmiller so it's basically red hat?
More or less, but very lean and without SystemD (yet).
