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heroix
heroix

Reputation: 171

Amazon EC2 virtualization with VMware

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing I can't understand this. What is an instance? ("On-Demand Instances let you pay for compute capacity by the hour with no long-term commitments.")

Does this mean that I can use whole as my VMware server: (Extra Large Instance) 15 GB memory 8 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each) 1,690 GB instance storage 64-bit platform I/O Performance: High API name: m1.xlarge

For $0.96 per hour? Or does it mean only like one operation or something? What is that instance exactly?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 847

Answers (2)

nantito
nantito

Reputation: 364

An instance signifies an operating system instance (a virtual machine). By using virtualization, Amazon (and cloud providers in general) offer you a virtualized environment where OS instances are running. You have full control over that operating system inside that environment. Per hour means that you pay that much for using your OS instance resources for a single hour. I believe that page has almost all the details about pricing.

Upvotes: 2

eggie5
eggie5

Reputation: 1960

An instance is a virtual machine. For example you can start up an ubuntu instance and then you can SSH into it and do whatever you want.

Upvotes: 1

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