Tutorial: Setup EC2 for Rails/Merb/Sinatra using Chef

zacharypinter · on April 6, 2009

This is the first I've heard about Chef. I've spent some time with puppet, and it looks like Chef is trying to fix a lot of the pain points. Particularly, getting rid of that awful external DSL and using straight ruby.

ropiku · on April 6, 2009

I got started with Chef today and it's great. It's organized into recipes, and you can share cookbooks (see the official one, it has plenty of recipes for common things). I also like using erb templates for config files.

quellhorst · on April 6, 2009

In the article he claims EC2 is $27/month. Was there a recent price reduction?

fireteller · on April 6, 2009

He computed incorrectly. He didn't include the usage, with the reservation cost. A reduced usage still applies. The correct price is...

h = hours in a year = 8765

($325+($0.03 * h))/12 = $49.00/month

The best deal is a 3 year block

($500+($0.03 * h * 3))/36 = $35.80/month

pskomoroch · on April 6, 2009

reserved instances: http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2009/03/12/amazon-...

dmix · on April 6, 2009

From the article: "With a reserved instance (you pay for a whole year in advance) the price is $325 or $27/month. But that doesn't include Data Transfer, EBS, Elastic IP or S3 costs. Got that info from https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing"