Today Amazon announced the release of the “micro” instances.
From Amazon:
We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Micro instances for Amazon EC2, a new, low cost instance type designed for lower throughput applications and web sites.
Micro instances provide 613 MB of memory and support 32-bit and 64-bit platforms on both Linux and Windows. Micro instance pricing for On-Demand instances starts at $0.02 per hour for Linux and $0.03 per hour for Windows.
A very interesting attempt by Amazon to lower the bar for access to smaller companies and organizations. Not much of a security angle here with the minor observation that this would be great for building a DDoS botnet.
Just saying.
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