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There is one more "gotcha" if you dig deeper. That is the drop in EC2 prices and Amazon in general has been vague about passing on the benefits of price drop to old reservations ( https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=325153 ) . We even thought about adding speculative price drop and then do the comparison, but dropped the idea. It will be interesting to hear the take of HN community on this ..

Sure, will add it in a couple of days. Wanted to get feedback from the community before adding more use cases.

Which browser are you using ? we tested on quite a few combinations but might have missed some.

Sure, that is in todo list. Will add it in a day or two.

Yes that will be good, please send the screenshot to info "ta" promptcloud.com

Sorry for not looking into it earlier, but our own expertise in UI is limited, will seek help and try to fix it ASAP.

Heavy utilization reservation is different. See this page http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/InstanceS...

Quote from the page above " Light and Medium Utilization Reserved Instances also are billed by the instance-hour for the time that instances are in a running state; if you do not run the instance in an hour, there is zero usage charge. Partial instance-hours consumed are billed as full hours. Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances are billed for every hour during the entire Reserved Instance term (which means you’re charged the hourly fee regardless of whether any usage has occurred during an hour). "

Thanks for the feedback. We are doing the "t1.micro, m1.small .."translation right now. (Edit : changes pushed)

X axis value seems to be some browser issue. On some browsers it shows up only at reduced zooms. Will fix it.

Also, we are not trying to replace AWS cost calculator. It was more like putting our own dog food out to answer the question, that at what point/usage is the reserved instance better than on demand.

Thanks for the feedback. We'll fix that soon :)

Thanks for the feedback, doing it. Will upload the new version in 20 min or so.

Edit : changes pushed.

A very valid question for Enterprise start-ups. There might be multiple ways but what's the best way depends on what you did best and are good at.

Email-marketing might sound great for enterprise startups to reach out to businesses directly, but ofcourse there's a limit to it. In my opinion, its the brand and visibility you create for yourself (via blogs, media coverage, backlinks,sensible website) which carries long-term paybacks. If people know about you, they'll come to you when that specific need arises.