Show HN: Amazon EC2 instance comparison table

Made this a while back because I was sick of the way Amazon's instance info (<a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/" rel="nofollow">http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/</a>) and pricing info (<a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/" rel="nofollow">http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/</a>) were on different pages in a hard-to-browse format.<p>Hoping this helps people compare and choose new instances following yesterday's troubles.

I've personally found running 3-4 micro instances behind a load balancer offers more RAM, more CPU power (in short bursts), and fail over than 1 Small instance at the same price or cheaper. However, it doesn't always make sense for every application.

For all those asking about reserved-instance data, I posted this a few months back. Somewhat surprisingly, I didn't get any interest back then.<p><a href="http://blog.altudov.com/2010/11/03/amazon-ec2-reserved-instance-cost-breakdown/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.altudov.com/2010/11/03/amazon-ec2-reserved-insta...</a><p><a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ah1sNhjIaHmVdFQzSk5mTTBWTE9IWDlzb2dUT0duQUE&#38;hl=en#gid=0" rel="nofollow">https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ah1sNhjIaHmVdFQzSk5...</a>

Thank you. This is way better than the way amazon lays it out. Can you add the additional zones (asia, europe). Simple but very useful. Thanks

Nice overview, and I wholeheartedly concur that the AWS site is a mess.<p>Gladly the actual AWS Web GUI works pretty well, and so does their pricing calculator[1]. But everything else could really use a design overhaul.<p>[1] <a href="http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html" rel="nofollow">http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html</a>

Please add reserved instances and EBS volumes!

Pretty cool! Is there a way to show the spot instances price too? Maybe some ajax magic?

Great work! Could you please add the Ec2 Suse instance types to the table, for comparison? I haven't been able to compare the Cpu performance of the Suse instance type compared to the standard types.

Looks good. A nice-to have addition would be price per compute unit.

Would be nice to have a 'monthly' price for each instance, calculated for 720 hours, for easily comparing to other services.

Can I ask what did you use to make those tables please?<p>I'm a beginner CSS/HTML person, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Wow, a site using the .info domain showing info.<p>Will a site using .biz for honest business be next?

can you also add other regions?