1100% markup for Red Hat running JBoss on EC2?
[ geir ] 22:19, Tuesday, 17 June 2008

Am I reading this wrong?

RedHat just announced a program where you can get JBoss App server (free as in beer software) running on an amazon EC2 instance for

"$119/month per customer plus $1.21 per hour for every deployed server, plus additional bandwidth and storage fees."

Putting aside the $119 and looking at published Amazon EC2 pricing, the $1.21/hr is a 50% markup on the $0.80/hour "Extra large instance", and a 1100% markup on the $0.10/hour "Small Instance", which I'd argue is enough for plenty of deployments. The $119 adds an additional $0.16 an hour.

Granted, you do save the costs of hiring someone to make a JBoss AMI for you, but still... amazing.


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especially when you can run glassfish for free :)

--Piren Twill, June 20, 2008 01:52 PM
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