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3 Quick Ways To Reduce Your Amazon EC2 Cloud Charges

by simon on January 31, 2011

in Amazon, Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Contributors, Guest Writers, How to, IT, Performance, Rackspace, Storage, Technology, Tools, Tutorials

Reducing Your Amazon EC2 Cloud Charges The Biggest difference between standard web hosting and cloud-based hosting can be seen when you get the monthly bill. A standard web host, like GoDaddy, will charge you a flat monthly fee and give you access to a single, fixed server. Whereas a cloud-based host, like Amazon EC2 will charge you at a granular level for each compute asset you use, whether it’s bandwidth, CPU or storage. This can lead to a confusing monthly bill (ever tried to use Amazon’s “simple” cost calculator?), but also offers the opportunities to save money by being more astute with your resource

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