Attribo Cloud Insights : Quick stats so far

It's been a hectic few weeks keeping in sync with our early adopter prospects. Excited to see things shaping up & helping our users on a daily basis.

Thought of sharing  few key stats based on the participation so far & here it is:

1. Availability Zone : Virginia
   Virginia by far leads across. Primary reason we identified  it to be the cheapest & cost effective zone apart from it being the default choice by AWS when one commissions the resources.
   Attribo Cloud Insights offers a scorecard for you to compare regions/zones to figure out if costs can be saved by shifting to a lower cost region. California being the following choice by most & is catching up with Virginia rapidly.
   One interesting point which came across is also because of plenty of AWS dedicated early & growth stage start-ups being on the US-EAST coast. here is a run down for you to consider 

inux/UNIX / Windows

	$0.32 Virginia US East	$0.32 Oregon US West	$0.36 N.California US West	$0.36 Ireland EU	$0.36 Singapore Asia pacific	$0.368 Tokyo Asia pacific	$0.46 Sao Paulo South America
	$0.46 Virginia US East	$0.46 Oregon US West	$0.46 Ireland EU	$0.46 Singapore Asia pacific	$0.46 Tokyo Asia pacific	$0.5 N.California US West	$0.6 Sao Paulo South America

1. VM Config/Type : m1.large
   By far m1.large is being used in most production environments. Sometimes it seems to be an over provisioned choice but hey gives a little buffer to suffice for any spikes.
   c1.medium config recently added by amazon is catching up on this front & seems a reasonable choice by most. 7GB is a sweet spot for most web apps those can be put in production till one gets TC coverage or has stable spikes. But hey who cares AWS has plenty of options to scale out on-demand.
   
   

   Large

   4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each)
   Instance 7.5 GB of memory
   850 GB of local instance storage
   64-bit platform
   High
   m1.large
   
   Here is a cost comparison for Large instance for UNIX/Windows
   
   
   
   Linux/UNIX
   

   $0.32/hr

   $7.7/d | $53.8/w | $215.0/m | $2580.5/y

   
   

   $0.46/hr

   $11.0/d | $77.3/w | $309.1/m | $3709.4/y
   
   Windows
   

   $0.46/hr

   $11.0/d | $77.3/w | $309.1/m | $3709.4/y

   
   

   $0.6/hr

   $14.4/d | $100.8/w | $403.2/m | $4838.4/y

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2. Architecture : 64 Bit
   Its been proposed by all & most are aware of the benefits, we still found plenty of 32 bit VM's being in use. Im sure all have a plan to move over to 64-bit. primary reason also would be to support SMART SIZING on-demand & it can be achieved with 64bit one's only

More as we progress. 

- Vinod