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I'm wanting to host a simple blog on AWS via Docker containers. I've gone the route of creating an EC2 instance via this link https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=us-east-1#LaunchInstanceWizard:
I created an instance of type Amazon Linux AMI and it's a t2.micro.
How do I know if this is a low-cost way to host my blog? What are the fees? How do I know that I have 1 year free trial?
The reason I ask is because I looked at this on the docker site and then when clicking the Get Started with AWS link on that page, it brought me to a page that started talking about large costs...is this for larger servers that is not related to the free 1 year EC2 instance I'm trying to run for a simple blog?
I'm just looking for a cheap AWS instance to host my blog, maybe a few dollars a month with very small amount of traffic and want to make sure I'm doing this right in terms of creating and setting up my server since I do want to use docker to deploy my blog in a container.
I suggest you go with t2.nano instance which will cost you just $5/month + nominal data xfer cost. Later if you find the instance size not sufficient, you can upgrade the instance to t2.micro to t2.small to m3.medium etc., just by clicking few buttons.
Use this calculator: SIMPLE MONTHLY CALCULATOR to find the approximate cost.
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I created a free account since more time to test aws services. Last week I started 2 ec2 instances and I created an EKS cluster. After one day I found 26€ as billing.
I removed all EC2 instances, the cluster EKS, the users that I created them, the users-group, I deleted every thing from the account. But the billing is still increasing without any running service. Now I have 40€. I created an incident to aws support but I don't now when they will answer me.
Do you have an idea please ? thanks
You can see exactly what you are being billed for by visiting the billing console. If you look at the bills page it will default to the current month.
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I am using Amazons Elastic Beanstalk to host a Tomcat server. I am using the t1.micro free tier. However, for this month, my bill is for over the free 750 hours.
As you can see, there is an additional 451 hours billed.
I have read that Amazon will bill an extra hour for restarting the server. There is no way I have restarted the server 451 times this month. I have deployed a new app probably around 10 times.
Does anyone know why Amazon are charging these 451 hours?
Thanks
UPDATE
I have two applications running:
This Billing contains All Ec2 instance. Which includes all the running ec2 instance not only ec2 instance launched using elastic beanstalk.
Can you check have you launch any other instance other than elasticbeanstalk..?
750 hours is not per instance, it is total. If you run 10 servers for 750 hours in a month, you get 9*750 hours of billed, and 1*750 paid for.
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I want to create an iOS app for 1:1 and group chats. Since DynamoDB is not the ideal solution for this, I am currently searching for a better way.
Possible solutions:
Install an XMPP server (eJabbered) on AWS EC2
Use AWS RDS (relational database) with one chat table, where each record equals a message sent from one client to another or to a group.
Use Amazon S3 to store files for each chat?
Other options?
Which one of the above is most elegant / easiest solution for this?
Option 1 is not recommended by some. Option 2 seems to be easier to (auto) scale.
Which one is more cost-efficient?
Regarding RDS Amazon writes:
"AWS Free Tier includes 750hrs of Micro DB Instance each month for one year"
Regarding EC2 Amazon writes:
"AWS Free Tier includes 750 hours of Linux and Windows t2.micro instances each month for one year. To stay within the Free Tier, use only EC2 Micro instances."
I am quite new to server backend architecture, but an accounting based on time seems not to be the best solution for a chat app?
The S3 solution is not the one to choose because the limit of PUT Authorized on Amazon S3 is too small (2000), so if you are going to have millions of chat conversation, your cost will be amazing.
Currently i'm using AWS RDS for a chat feature on my android/ios application.
This solution works fine because my database and your server application are scalable, but i'm not sure it's the better solution to use.
Conclusion
If i have to start a new chat application today, i will choose XMPP server for low cost and better performance.
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I'm hosting several websites on AWS and got the charge of On Demand Linux t2.micro Instance Hour for 690hrs. I've totally no idea about when I asked for this on demand instance. Is it like my free tier instance has used up so it automatically cost the on demand instance?
Also another question is how can I know which website/ec2 instance actually cost me the on demand instance hour. I strongly believe that none of my website has large traffic.
Complete information about your billing in details you may receive on a page https://console.aws.amazon.com/billing/home
Also, check the following - have you launched one more t2.micro instance? You have possibility to use free t2.micro instance for 750 hours per month, it means that you may have only one non-stop working instance per month.
Please, check, maybe you have set up autoscaling group that launched one more instance for you and forgot to disable it?
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I'm planning to move my Website which is using multiple wordpress to Amazon Services. However, my daily vistors are about 22,000 and sometimes goes to over 90k and the web crashes! However, the hosting company charge me nearly $100 including support without support it would cost $50. the average bandwidth is about 400GB.
Can I ask please how much will it cost me? and how I can start with Amazon Services?
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Start out by looking at the different types of hosting that Amazon offers and which one will be the correct fit for your site. Amazon's EC2 (Elastic Cloud Computing) is the servers that you can get hosted in the cloud.
Depending on how much storage space and bandwidth, the costs differ. They have a helpful cost guide on their EC2 page. They offer different pricing for the different types of servers you need. They have on demand spot instances which can be brought up and down on the fly. If you need a server to be running constantly you can put a down payment and have a reserved instance to provide the server.
You can calculate your fees depending on your current usage from the tools AWS provides. http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
This is also a good article for getting started with using WordPress under AWS.
http://wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/scaling-caching/deploy-your-wordpress-blog-to-the-cloud/
AWS also provides a Free Tier of services provided you stay under a certain amount of usage. That is detailed at http://aws.amazon.com/free/ . I also found this YouTube video on setting up EC2 instances very helpful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPFoDnjR8e8 . From what I understand, unless your WordPress install gets a crazy number of hits you will probably fall under the Free Tier.