I am pleased to find that Amazon’s EC2 service now offers a “Micro” sized instance. According to Amazon:
“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.”
This puts [...]
Tag Archives: virtualization
Amazon EC2 now offers Micro Instances
September 9, 2010 – 9:02 am
VirtualBox
April 7, 2009 – 5:35 am
I know Sun’s VirtualBox has been out for awhile now. However, when it came out, I already have VMware running and had plenty of VMs operational. Recently, I upgraded to a new workstation and switched OSes. Instead of going with VMware, I tried VirtualBox.
To be frank, I love it.
Other than a few quirks, it works [...]
350,000+ Virtual Desktop Instalation in Brazil
February 20, 2009 – 9:26 am
eWeek writes that Brazil now has the largest single desktop virtualization and Linux deployment. Over 350,000 workstations in schools.
Personally, I think getting only 10 virtual workstations to a single server is pretty week. Memory is cheap, and I doubt the CPU requirements are going to be all that demanding. I’d probably pushing to get at [...]