What types of machines are available for cloud computing with Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux may be instantiated on cloud services for both 32- and 64-bit servers. The beta versions may be instantiated on the following servers:

• Small Instance: 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit), 160 GB of instance storage, 32-bit platform
• Large Instance: 7.5 GB of memory, 4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each), 850 GB of instance storage, 64-bit platform
• Extra Large Instance: 15 GB of memory, 8 EC2 Compute Units (4 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each), 1690 GB of instance storage, 64-bit platform

How much does it cost?

There are two types of fees for Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the cloud, fixed and variable.

• Fixed: US$19/month per customer account which provides access to the web service, updates, and support infrastructure. Regardless of the amount of usage of the instances, bandwidth or any other variable cost, customers must maintain an active subscription in order to instantiate and manage servers.
• Variable Costs: Depending on the extent of use, customers will be charged one or more of the following:
  • Hourly CPU/Instance:
    • Small Instance: $0.21 per instance-hour consumed (or part of an hour consumed)
    • Large Instance: $0.53 per large instance-hour consumed (or part of an hour consumed)
    • Extra-Large Instance: $0.94 per extra-large instance-hour consumed (or part of an hour consumed)
  • Data Transfer In: $0.11 per GB
  • Data Transfer Out: $0.19 per GB
  • Additional fees for any S3 storage which is used will be assessed directly by Amazon. Note that while the use of S3 is not mandatory for maintaining a working Red Hat Enterprise Linux cloud server, Red Hat recommends all customers manage their servers and maintain configurations within Amazon's S3 infrastructure. For more information on S3, see: http://amazon.com/s3

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