Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2
$0.02/hr == approximately $14/mo if you leave it on.<p>Is this really $6/mo cheaper than a linode 512? That might be nice for personal projects.<p>I'm trying to teach myself some things that really need more than my local dev machine (puppet, backup strategies/more resilient code, learning cassandra). I've been running a bunch of VM's on my laptop, but my dev machine is a weakling and can't hardly handle it.<p>It almost seems like I could just spin up a dozen of these little instances for $2.88 per waking day and teach myself under substantially more "real" conditions on the cheap. That's something I'd love to have as an option on linode, given that teaching myself is a large part of what I use it for.<p>Is there any reason that wouldn't work? Is this too complicated in practice?