Clouds with no shutdown cost

darknessends

Hi,

Apart from amazon ec2 - are there any other cloud solutions where shutdown virtual machines are not charged ?

Thank You

raindog308

Azure (yes, they do Linux). Probably google compute.

Keep in mind that you will still be billed for some resources:

• disk, unless you release it
• IP address, unless you release it in which case you'll get a different one when you reboot. For Azure this isn't as problematic as you always get a ${vmname}.cloudapp.net DNS CNAME

darknessends

@raindog308 : Apart from these biggies - any other cheap place. Need to run a hadoop cluster.

Geekoine

@darknessends said:
Hi,

Apart from amazon ec2 - are there any other cloud solutions where shutdown virtual machines are not charged ?

Iwstack

Lunanode

darknessends

@Geekoine : Lunanode definitely charges for shutdown VM.
IWStack seems to support it though

Geekoine

@darknessends said:
Geekoine : Lunanode definitely charges for shutdown VM.
IWStack seems to support it though

I apologize, perhaps I got confused about Lunanode. I'm sure about Iwstack: stopped VMs are not charged, apart from storage and IP.

darknessends

@Geekoine : IWStack is a great suggestion you know.

Geekoine

Iwstack is amazing:-) I love Prometeus

MarkTurner

darknessends said: Need to run a hadoop cluster

If you are going to run Hadoop then make sure your storage is completely diverse otherwise all your instances are going to be thrashing the same storage.

Junkless

Scaleway?

Ikoula

We do