On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 04:00:06PM +0000, Nick Sheppard wrote:
At the end of the month I got a bill for 120 dollars. And Amazon were quite right - they were charging me for the 1024 GB of storage I had accidentally asked for by not changing the default when I set up the instance. The first 30 GB were free, the other 994 I was paying for. And I was only actually using 1.5 GB ...
*Storage*? As in, disk space? Surely you mean bandwidth, but you seem quite clearly to mean disk space, so I'm confused.
So ... if you've recently set up an AWS EC2 cloud relay with the Tor AMI, check your storage, and your billing!
Are you setting up a relay or a bridge?
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#RelayOrBridge
In any case, I think the tor-project website AWS screenshots urgently need to be changed to reflect the current setup procedure, with a warning not to accept the 1024 GB default and an explicit recommendation about the amount of storage to ask for (was my guess of 10 GB reasonable?).
Yuck. I have worried since the beginning of the 'cloud bridge' project that we were just signing people up for a future bait-and-switch by the enormous uncaring for-profit company. But then, I figured I was just a cloud hater so I should let people move forward with their vision of the future. :)
Sorry you got bitten. :(
--Roger