Amazon’s cloud Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage would buy you your own

Re:Amazon’s cloud Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage w... by gruez on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:33AM (#25276168)

Aren't ubuntu images free to use? Or are you talking about the ones with support entitlements?

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Re:Amazon’s cloud Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage w... by bjarneh on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:39AM (#25276215)

We pay a monthly cost for every Ubuntu VM that we have. Perhaps there is some "get X free VM's" included with a certain Office365 license or something; but ours are certainly not free. You could probably make the exact same calculation as they have done here. How long can rent an Ubuntu VM in Azure for the price of buying actual hardware running Ubuntu etc.

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Re:Amazon’s cloud Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage w... by gruez on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:15AM (#25276481)

I don't doubt that the VMs themselves cost money. I only doubt that the ubuntu images cost money. In other words, the cost for the VMs should be the same if you installed debian (or whatever home rolled distro).

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Re:Amazon’s cloud Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage w... by bjarneh on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:56AM (#25276855)

Yes, no additional cost to install Ubuntu on the VM's.

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