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		aymeric on March 11, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Deploy a Rails app to EC2 in less than an h... How much does an EC2 box cost? Less than $20/month?

rapind on March 11, 2011 [–]

I assume you're referring to the memcached addon reference? That's $20 for 100MB of cache ram... The amazon small instance is 1.7GB of RAM for around $40. Making the memcached addon a 850% markup.

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