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vinceASPECT:
Hello everybody,

I got some friendly advice and help with Tiny Core Linux on these forums.

Was thinking to return here for the occasional discussion.

Has anybody seen these FREE computers that are offered by www.amazon.com?

It just started Today.

Amazon will give you a FREE computer for a whole YEAR and you can quit the service at the end. They also offer you a whole lot more of services that come bundled with the free computer.

The free computer is a Linux Debian machine. IT's a CLOUD computer so you log in from your desktop using REMOTE DESKTOP and then your screen becomes the desktop of the Linux machine.

The machines have 3 cores. A virtual 1.2 ghz zeon chip and then TWO other similar virtual cores that you can use is bursts. It would be pretty reasonable running Linux on that Chip.

The comuter has 680 megs of RAM and hard drive space. You also get lots of free applications wired and ready to go. Database tools and other such tools.

You can install your own tools into the remote machine and it will remember itself on power down.

You are allowed 750 hours per month of usage. That is basically 24 hours per day.

Interestingly it's not clear if Amazon are limiting things to ONE free machine per credit card. (your card is never charged)

I noticed on google that there is now a windows tool that allows you ro run concurrent unlimited instances of Remote Desktop. Effectively you could have many of these amazon machines OPEN and ready for FREE  (extra spare CPU for you to work with)

I just found the idea very exciting. Cloud computing has been around for ever hasn't it....was it ever free?

Normally these Linux Micro instance machines cost about 3 cents per hour.

With most other companies they are about 10 cents per hour. So during a 365 day year Amazon is offering you some real savings by making it totally FREE.

Does anybody know of any other FULLY functional free cloud computers on offer?

hope to hear from you


Vince.

danielibarnes:
Here is the link to the AWS Free Usage Tier to which you are referring. It isn't a free computer, it's a free service: "Beginning November 1, new AWS customers will be able to run a free Amazon EC2 Micro Instance for a year." Here are the details from that page:

AWS Free Usage Tier (Per Month):

* 750 hours of Amazon EC2 Linux Micro Instance usage (613 MB of memory and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) – enough hours to run continuously each month
* 750 hours of an Elastic Load Balancer plus 15 GB data processing
* 10 GB of Amazon Elastic Block Storage, plus 1 million I/Os, 1 GB of snapshot storage, 10,000 snapshot Get Requests and 1,000 snapshot Put Requests
* 5 GB of Amazon S3 storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests
* 30 GB per of internet data transfer (15 GB of data transfer “in” and 15 GB of data transfer “out” across all services except Amazon CloudFront)
* 25 Amazon SimpleDB Machine Hours and 1 GB of Storage
* 100,000 Requests of Amazon Simple Queue Service
* 100,000 Requests, 100,000 HTTP notifications and 1,000 email notifications for Amazon Simple Notification Service

vinceASPECT:
Hello

OK...

so does that mean you can't install your own software tools into this service?

maybe my understanding is wrong

i assumed you get a Fedora or Debain Linux machine with 1.2ghz cpu and RAM etc.

Micro instance is qouted as those specs....on wikipedia

This is a Linux micro instance they are offering. 

Are these free services called AMI's......?

Artificial Machine Instances   (artificial computers)

just about to get one now....anyhow

Thanks

Vince.

vinceASPECT:
sorry .......says AMI

Amazon Machine Instance.

gotta read some more

thanks

Vince.

vinceASPECT:
Just found this about Amazon Free Linux machine Micro instances......(what they actually are)

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/index.html?concepts_micro_instances.html

The virtual computer is a Linux box with Fedora or something....

It seems you get *bursts* from 2 virtual CPU cores inside the virtual Linux machine instance..... (two....1.2ghz zeon chip cores)

Then you also get a small amount of continual cpu power.

Depending upon the applications you use in the virtual Linux box, such things as cpu usage will be determined and allocated....

They mention that if your applications need more cpu power, then it will be
supplied as required **ONLY** until you have exhausted the free cpu bandwidth offered....then you will be charged an HOURLY excess as you eat up extra cpu power.

Will have to check this out

The operating system of the virtual computer is Fedora Linux maybe.

Vince.

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