What do you think of Jumpbox's pricing of EC2 (small instance)?
EC2 charges $0.085/hr for linux - see http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing.
But, through Jumpbox, "$0.200 per Small instance-hour (or partial hour) consumed" (235% of Amazon's standard pricing), or $144/month insteead of $61.20/month. Seems quite a markup for assistance deploying open source software, particularly where we have already paid a subscription fee for the convienence of accessing the software through Jumpbox.
Is this appropriate pricing? Is it consistent with GNU licensing and philosophy? Has Jumpbox been transparent in its imposition of this markup in its advertising?
Thoughts?
m
Amazon EC2 Pricing Model through Jumpbox Appropriate?
Hello M,
Someone else will respond to your emails (maybe not today) but I wanted to provide a brief clarification on this issue. In order to pay the $0.085/hour rate you must add your AWS ID to your JumpBox Open account as described in our documentation wiki:
http://wiki.jumpbox.com/doc/virtualization/ec2/add_aws_id
and then you must make sure that you launch the correct AMIs:
http://wiki.jumpbox.com/doc/virtualization/ec2/amis
If you launch the wrong AMIs you will be charged at the wrong rate. This has been a point of confusion for a couple users who were also Cloud Gear customers such as yourself. Please let me know if the two pages above fail to clarify the situation for you.
Sorry that this has been a source of confusion for you and anyone else who may have encountered this. We have made some recent changes to help prevent this issue in the future and will continue to improve our systems and documentation to help eliminate this situation.
Austin