Show HN: Another AWS EC2 instance comparison tool that's always up to date

https://ec2instances.github.io/

by jitbit • 5 years ago

7 8 5 years ago

ec2instances.github.io

jitbit4• 5 years ago

Hi, author here.

Actually the sole reason I've built yet another EC2 instance comparison table is because my favorite "goto" app at "ec2instances.info" was acquired, became a bit slow, lags updates and has some bugs.

Also, most of the similar tools either hard-code or "cache" the pricing info in some way, this one just pulls the live data from AWS docs endpoints.

dygd• 5 years ago

One quite useful feature of the other site is comparing instance types by typing something like "m5.large|r5.large|c5.large" in the search box.

jitbit4• 5 years ago

oh... Sounds nice. On it.

mdaniel• 5 years ago

I hope you have either considered donating[1] or otherwise have an agreement with gnuns because if this project ever catches on, it's going to shove a lot of content through what appears to be a development tool

Also, kind of related, pulling things directly from AWS APIs are always going to be ... fun, so I hope either your JS, allorigins.win, or both, have some retry and backoff logic in place

1 = https://github.com/gnuns/allOrigins/issues/89#issuecomment-9...

jitbit4• 5 years ago

If this ever catches on, I'll put up my own CORS-proxy or donate, of course.

P.S. Actually, looking at the http headers, the request is being cached by Cloudflare so no load on the tool.

electroly• 5 years ago

Looks nice, I will try this out. I have the same complaint about ec2instances.info -- it's so slow! The limitation of 1-year convertible RIs in us-east-1 only is no problem; that's what I want anyway.

Show HN: Another AWS EC2 instance comparison tool that's always up to date

Related Stories