On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Nick Sheppard nshep@attglobal.net wrote:
On 08/12/13 18:54, Runa A. Sandvik wrote:
On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Nick Sheppard nshep@attglobal.net wrote:
Hi all,
Hi Nick,
At the end of the month I got a bill for 120 dollars. And Amazon were quite right - they were charging me for the 1024 GB of storage I had accidentally asked for by not changing the default when I set up the instance. The first 30 GB were free, the other 994 I was paying for. And I was only actually using 1.5 GB ...
I just went through the setup process for a Tor Cloud instance in us-east-1 (Virginia) without finding the 1024 GB of storage you say is the new default value. Under "Storage" on the "Review Instance Launch"-page, I see storage is set to 4 GB. Could you please go through the setup process again and see if you can figure out where this value was set?
Thanks!
Interesting ... I was using eu-west-1 (Ireland). And comparing the two, I see that us-east-1 does indeed have 4 exactly where eu-west-1 has 1024.
Looks like you're right; the default value for storage when selecting an eu-west-1 instance is 1024 GB. Seems like this is also the case for us-west-1, us-west-2, ap-northeast-1, ap-southeast-1, sa-east-1, ap-southeast-2.
I wonder why that is?
It had never occurred to me that the setup defaults might be different. I wonder if the usage limits and charges might be different too? I'll investigate.
I know the charges are different across the various regions. The cheapest location has always been us-east-1 (Virginia).