I have $8k of AWS credit that expire soon. What should I do with them?

Posted by nyassin on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @11:22PM
from the self-post dept.

Looking into mining altcoins, but open to other suggestions!

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Re:I have $8k of AWS credit that expire soon. What should I ... by gregimba on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @11:53PM (#7302962)

If you think your going to need servers down the road on AWS I would look into reserving a bunch of servers on three year terms for medium usage. Pay upfront using your credit and save money later on down the road.

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Re:I have $8k of AWS credit that expire soon. What should I ... by voltagex_ on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @11:33PM (#7302904)

Set up some boxes to help with Archive Team's current projects. http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

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Re:I have $8k of AWS credit that expire soon. What should I ... by tekknolagi on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @02:15AM (#7303486)

Also, how did you get this credit?

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Re:I have $8k of AWS credit that expire soon. What should I ... by staunch on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @11:34PM (#7302905)

Lots of projects you can help here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/projects.php

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Re:I have $8k of AWS credit that expire soon. What should I ... by nyassin on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @11:37PM (#7302914)

great idea. looking into it.

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Re:I have $8k of AWS credit that expire soon. What should I ... by penguinlinux on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @04:04PM (#7307793)

Buy some reserved instances and then put them for sale.

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Re:I have $8k of AWS credit that expire soon. What should I ... by zh on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @11:24PM (#7302881)

Create a bitcoin mining farm from EC2 instances ;)

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Re:I have $8k of AWS credit that expire soon. What should I ... by gm_ on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @12:39AM (#7303141)

http://www.seventeenorbust.com

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Re:I have $8k of AWS credit that expire soon. What should I ... by tekknolagi on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @02:14AM (#7303484)

MINE DOGE

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Re:I have $8k of AWS credit that expire soon. What should I ... by maerF0x0 on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @11:36PM (#7302910)

resell ?

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Re:I have $8k of AWS credit that expire soon. What should I ... by nyassin on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @11:37PM (#7302912)

open for that idea.

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