[tor-relays] Setting up AWS cloud-relay - don't reserve expensive storage!

[Nick Sheppard]

On 08/12/13 18:54, Runa A. Sandvik wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Nick Sheppard <nshep at 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.

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.

Thanks everyone for responding so promptly!

Nick Sheppard