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That is the drop in EC2 prices and Amazon in general has been vague about passing on the benefits of price drop to old reservations…",{"id":54,"by":10,"text":55},"5786197","Thanks for the feedback. We are doing the \"t1.micro, m1.small ..\"translation right now. (Edit : changes pushed) X axis value seems to be some browser issue. On some browsers it…",{"value":57,"source":48,"evidence":58},"Answer the question of when a reserved instance beats on-demand; built as dog food",[59],{"id":54,"by":10,"text":55},[],"unknown",{"praise":63,"objections":76,"requests":116,"questions":141,"alternatives":146},[64],{"value":65,"source":66,"evidence":67},"Simple and useful tool for deciding on reserved instances","commenter",[68,72],{"id":69,"by":70,"text":71},"5786141","forbes","This is simple but excellent. AWS should have graphs like that on their calculator page to help people decide how long it will take for their investment in a reserved instance to…",{"id":73,"by":74,"text":75},"5790140","Sealy","That very cool, something that many of us will find useful. Feedback: The top bar folds over when the browser window is resized (looks like anything less than 1024 px). The page…",[77,87,102,109],{"value":78,"source":66,"evidence":79},"Heavy reserved instances bill hourly 24\u002F7 even when unused, which the chart may not make clear",[80,84],{"id":81,"by":82,"text":83},"5786870","nirvdrum","Maybe, but the heavy reserved instances come with a required hourly commitment. If you buy one, you have to pay the 24\u002F7 hourly usage fee regardless of whether you're actually…",{"id":85,"by":82,"text":86},"5786894","Unfortunately, it's not an assumption. It's not immediately clear when looking at the pricing, but if you buy a heavy reserved instance you have to pay the 24\u002F7\u002F365 hourly rate.…",{"value":88,"source":66,"evidence":89},"Layout breaks on narrow windows and mobile sliders do not work",[90,94,98],{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"5786134","sp332","Sweet project :) The page layout seems to break for windows narrower than about 900 pixels, though.",{"id":95,"by":96,"text":97},"5786479","if_by_whisky","The sliders dont work on mobile.",{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"5786848","ProCynic","fails for me with android chrome beta 28.0.1500.21 on android 4.2.2",{"value":103,"source":66,"evidence":104},"Accessibility: sliders do not work with screen readers",[105],{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"5786230","jareds","Is there any plans on making this tool accessible? I'm a screen reader user and the sliders don't appear to work with Firefox and Jaws.",{"value":110,"source":66,"evidence":111},"Confusing labels and graph lacks axis values",[112],{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"5786109","Eclyps","I like the idea, it's just a bit difficult to use for what I'm getting out of it. Simple things like making clear what the \"number of days\" slider means (it didn't take long to…",[117,127,134],{"value":118,"source":66,"evidence":119},"Add Windows instance pricing",[120,123],{"id":121,"by":82,"text":122},"5786931","If you're taking feature requests, it'd be really handy to see pricing breakdowns for Windows instances as well. They have a different breakeven point than the Linux ones.",{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},"5787454","cpher","I second the request for Windows instances. I currently use a spreadsheet to track everything, then update the costs every few months--comparing instance sizes with OS's. It…",{"value":128,"source":66,"evidence":129},"Add spot instance pricing",[130],{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"5786363","dhendo","It would be interesting to see the current spot instance price plotted as well.",{"value":135,"source":66,"evidence":136},"Use AWS instance codes such as M1 and M2 in the dropdown",[137],{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"5786084","waterside81","Cool tool. One suggestion, in the dropdown where you list the types of instances, can you append the abbreviations that AWS uses (e.g. M1-small, M2-medium, M3-large). I'm sure…",[142],{"value":143,"source":66,"evidence":144},"Does the tool account for price drops on old reservations",[145],{"id":51,"by":10,"text":52},[147,151,158],{"value":148,"source":66,"evidence":149},"AWS Cost Calculator",[150],{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},{"value":152,"source":66,"evidence":153},"whichinstance.com",[154],{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},"5786484","imperialWicket","This is a nice tool, another one (and a point of comparison\u002Finspiration) is at http:\u002F\u002Fwhichinstance.com. EDIT: fixed autocorrect",{"value":159,"source":66,"evidence":160},"ec2price.com spot price graphing",[161],{"id":162,"by":163,"text":164},"5787719","grosskur","I recently made an app to graph spot prices: http:\u002F\u002Fec2price.com\u002F",{"comments":166,"answered":30,"key":167},10,[168,169,172],{"id":51,"text":52},{"id":170,"text":171},"5786215","Heavy utilization reservation is different. 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