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If I’m serving up a website using apache from an Amazon EC2 instance, does it ever make sense for me to stop the machine? Also, I’m extremely new to EC2 so I’m not entirely sure how EBS works. It looks like Amazon does gave me 8gb of storage for free, but am I actually being charged for that storage 24/7? Thanks
If you stop the server, it is down. If you’re in a development stage, and you want to limit your costs to the bare minimum, yes, you can stop the server at the end of each day. This is one of the advantages to an EBS backed instance.
EBS is basically external network attached storage. For most people, EBS backed servers are the way to go, since you can easily clone them, stop and start them, etc. You can also make snapshots of an ebs volume, so it’s a great way to have low cost backups of your server.
As for EBS storage, yes you pay for it, but it is relatively inexpensive. The real cost of EC2 ends up being CPU/runtime for the most part, although EBS certainly makes it easy to use up large amounts of storage.