Amazon announced three new offerings in their cloud platform today. All sound very interesting, and all have potential utility to ICPSR.
One, Amazon now offers a bona fide relational database (MySQL-type) in the cloud. They handle the patching, scaling, and other classic DBA functions; you provide the data. We use Oracle heavily today, but make little use of Oracle-only features.
Two, they are now offering "high-memory" instances: High-Memory Double Extra Large Instance 34.2 GB of memory, 13 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 3.25 EC2 Compute Units each), 850 GB of instance storage, 64-bit platform ($1.20/hour); and, High-Memory Quadruple Extra Large Instance 68.4 GB of memory, 26 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 3.25 EC2 Compute Units each), 1690 GB of instance storage, 64-bit platform ($2.40/hour).
Three, they are dropping the price of "on-demand" instances by 15% effective Nov 1. We've switched to reserved instances for some of our long-lived virtual systems, but we still have a handful of on-demand systems, and so this will have an immediate positive impact on our monthly bill.
Definitely a nice "treat" from Amazon this Halloween!
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