Show HN: Amazon EC2 instance comparison table (opens in new tab)

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Basically you can point any domain's A record to 174.129.25.170 and it will redirect you to the www subdomain.

Simple, but highly functional. That's the right way to do it.

Any chance we could get some other regions in there too?

This is very helpful, thanks. I also hate Amazon's tables.

You should put up a donation link.

The raw CPU performance of the SUSE and regular Linux instances is identical. The difference is purely the Operating System. On the SUSE instances, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is preinstalled and all updates are automatically available. You do not need a separate subscription from Novell. With the base instances you need to provide your own OS license/subscription as applicable.

(Disclaimer: I'm responsible for the AMIs for SUSE)

Added to my todo list. Didn't even realize there were special SUSE types. :)

Suse and non-Suse instances run on the same hardware at different prices.

Agreed, the current overview sucks. Amazon should hire the guy :)

Reserved instances would be nice, too.

Awesome job powdahound, and I support this comment. You could show the cost units for reserved instances as a range.

For example a small reserved instance's base cost is $227.50 per year so that's a lower bound of $.0263/hour. Then adding $.03 per hour used the upper bound is $.0563/hour.

So over the course of a year you'd pay within the range $.0263/hour - $.0563/hour depending on your usage.

Price per Gb memory would be good also.

I just used a jQuery plugin called tablesorter: http://tablesorter.com/docs/