Cloud Computing Info

Sizing and Costs

EC2, like the other services in AWS are pay as you go, pay for what you use, services. As I mentioned above, you basically pay for the power you use which is a CPU per hour charge, bandwidth and storage. Linux and Windows guests have a different pricing menu. I am listing the prices current as of Dec 2008. I recommend you always check at aws.amazon.com to verify current pricing before making a commitment.

Instead of buying or leasing a specific type of hardware (that you would then be responsible for upgrading over time), AWS computing power is based on an EC2 compute unit.