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The Skinny on Red Hat and EC2 Clouds
By John | November 28, 2007
This week Red Hat made Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 available as Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud images. For the last few weeks we have been converting all of our web sites over to EC2 images. In fact we can spin a WordPress or Drupal site in less than 15 minutes. So last night was playing around on EC2 and wanted to try out the new Red Hat images. Unfortunately I go this nasty message when I tried to launch the public image:
After I read a little more I found out that Red Hat charges an “Uplift” on top of Amazon’s EC2. Here is a breakdown of the costs:
| Item | EC2 Base | EC2 Red Hat Image |
| Monthly fee | $0.00 | $19.00 |
| 1 Cores/1.7GB/160GB/32bit | $0.10 per hour | $0.21 per hour |
| 2 Cores/7.5GB/850GB/64bit | $0.40 per hour | $0.53 per hour |
| 4 Cores/15GB/1690GB/64bit | $0.80 per hour | $0.94 per hour |
Therefore a 24 by 7 on a base EC2 public image would range from $30 to $576 per month and a Red Hat EC2 image would be around $72 to $795. There are additional charges for bandwidth and more storage for both Amazon and Red Hat’s services. The Red Hat EC2 is in beta and I really don’t feel like paying $19 per month on a beta. For now I will stick with Fedora.
Topics: amazon, ec2, s3, utility cloud computing | 1 Comment »
January 30th, 2008 at 7:58 am
[...] on the pricing and reliability this could be a game changer. If they keep the prices similar to RedHat’s implementation of S3/EC2 then this will be great offering. Hoewever, we have found S3 to be a little unstable as [...]