ec2instances.info
Infrastructure
cloud hosting comparison
SHOW HN2011
122points
33comments
#78of 1,097 in 2011
Top 8%of 2011 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
7 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.30.
Design: 3 for, 0 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 againstPricing: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Simpler and more useful than Amazon's own tables
From 3 comments
Simple, but highly functional. That's the right way to do it. Any chance we could get some other regions in there too?
timdorr on HNThank you. This is way better than the way amazon lays it out. Can you add the additional zones (asia, europe). Simple but very useful. Thanks
kennethologist on HNThis is very helpful, thanks. I also hate Amazon's tables. You should put up a donation link.
izendejas on HN
Objections
Missing reserved instance pricing
From 2 comments
Please add reserved instances and EBS volumes!
potomak on HNReserved instances would be nice, too.
chrisboesing on HN
Requests
Add other regions
From 3 comments
Simple, but highly functional. That's the right way to do it. Any chance we could get some other regions in there too?
timdorr on HNThank you. This is way better than the way amazon lays it out. Can you add the additional zones (asia, europe). Simple but very useful. Thanks
kennethologist on HNcan you also add other regions?
bambambazooka on HN
Add reserved instances and EBS volumes
From 2 comments
Please add reserved instances and EBS volumes!
potomak on HNReserved instances would be nice, too.
chrisboesing on HN
Add spot instance prices
From 1 comment
Pretty cool! Is there a way to show the spot instances price too? Maybe some ajax magic?
mborromeo on HN
Add price per compute unit and per GB memory
From 2 comments
Looks good. A nice-to have addition would be price per compute unit.
evandijk70 on HNPrice per Gb memory would be good also.
mikecolella on HN
Add monthly price per instance
From 1 comment
Would be nice to have a 'monthly' price for each instance, calculated for 720 hours, for easily comparing to other services.
utkarshkukreti on HN
Questions
Can the domain work without www?
From 1 comment
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pauldino on HN
Alternatives named
Amazon's own EC2 instance and pricing pages
From 2 comments
Made this a while back because I was sick of the way Amazon's instance info (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/) and pricing info (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/) were…
powdahound on HNNice overview, and I wholeheartedly concur that the AWS site is a mess. Gladly the actual AWS Web GUI works pretty well, and so does their pricing calculator[1]. But everything…
moe on HN