AWS do offer research grants, so it might be a good idea to contact them to see what they can do for you.

I ran Windows on the Amazon EC2 free tier ~600MB with ~1GHz processor. Installed Office on it at aswell and it ran OK IIRC.

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OK - fine, go with them. But i'll never suggest amazon as a hoster. Gladly, my bank was so good to remove current invoice and reject all future invoises from Amazon, so Amazon can not withdraw these

FYI a good summary of EC2 free tier CPU throttling: http://gregsramblings.com/2011/02/07/amazon-ec2-micro-instance-cpu-steal/

I like your blog. I ran asterisk under RHEL on the Amazon EC2 free tier, worked fine. I installed Windows server and that worked OK too. Obviously you're not going to get 4 cores @ 10GHz for free so

Amazon EC2 free tier is the "micro" instance which has a very weak CPU that is not capable of continuous utilization, only "bursts". Run any CPU intensive program f

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Because Amazon EC2 free tier is not free.

I think we should have LET tax-avoidance ring going like big businesses such as Google and Amazon have. What we should do is get non-EU residents to buy EU VPS tax free and transfer them to EU citizen

If you qualify for Amazon EC2's one-year free tier for NEW users, or have any "idle" VPS (KVM- or XEN-based), then check out my IPsec/L2TP VPN auto setup script, which was posted her

Amazon AWS.

I'm currently using Amazon's Route53 for my cirtical domains. I was amazed at their update propagation speeds. Gandi.net took over an hour to properate to just their 3 nameservers - Amazon was done in

Amazon's S3 with static site enabled?

Thanks for the suggestions so far, everyone!

Just use Amazon web services and encrypt your stuff.

-amazon S3-like "object storage" (I need out-of-the-box FTP/SCP not an API to develop for)

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Amazon's Route 53 is currently cheaper than Rage4. I use them for their 100% uptime guarantee and they have 30+ servers globally. They do have a premium feel - much better than GoDaddy.com or even Gan