2 USD per hour for an AWS instance?

[mathias]

This question is off-topic. Nevertheless I hope that someone can confirm or disaprove the following:
Is it true that every non-micro AWS EC2 instance costs at least 2$ per hour plus a regional dependend fee, so even a low-end server would cost at least 1.440 $ a month?

[Ayhan Ergul]

Most instances cost way less, you can check here: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

We have a mix of EC2 instances micro to xlarge as well as RDS, I can confidently say you'd be paying only a fraction of what you quoted.

Pricing does vary from region to region but not all that much - again you can compare regional pricing at above URL.

[mathias]

Mmh, there are currently two pages explaining the prices for the same thing differently:

1. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/dedicated-instances/
2. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/

In the first page states the following:
"... Dedicated Instance pricing has two components: (1) an hourly per instance usage fee and (2) a dedicated per region fee (note that you pay this once per hour regardless of how many Dedicated Instances you're running).
Dedicated Per Region Fee

$2 per hour - An additional fee is charged once per hour in which at least one Dedicated Instance of any type is running in a Region."

I am confused about the first page because the price there is much higher than in the second page.

[Ryan Chazen]

Your 2. page is the correct pricing. Not sure why you are looking at Dedicated Instances - they are for private clouds - generally governments that require that their data is not on the same physical machine as any other users. I'm guessing you do not need a virtual private cloud, or dedicated physical hardware.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/dedicated-instance.html

[mathias]

Ok, now I got it :-)
The price for dedicated servers are much higher because they are billed per host and not by instance. This explains the big price difference.
You're right, I don't need a dedicated server.

Thanks!