Using Amazon EC2 and S3 to control development costs
I’ve been pretty impressed with Amazon’s EC2 and S3 services. I thinking of using their platform for development work. This allows me to only pay for what I use, with no upfront costs or fixed costs per month. I’m thinking that by using this model, and only turning on servers when I need them, I can save money over having a dedicated server or even a VPS.
It’s also nice to have an EC2 account, just in case my web traffic spikes, and I need to start doing load balancing. One thing that I’ve found that could be an issue is that the charge for a small machine for one month is around $75, but if I run lots of bandwidth, things could start getting WAY more expensive than using a dedicated server. However, if the traffic only lasts for a short time, in the long run it would be less expensive than paying for two servers permanently.
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