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keytomouse on July 1, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Low Cost EC2 Instances With Burstable Performance

How many customers use more than 1GB of outbound traffic per month for a $5 server? Data transfer in is free on EC2 and the first 1GB outbound is free too according to the pricing page.

jlawer on July 1, 2014 [–]

Isn't the first GB of your account traffic free with AWS vs DO giving you 1 TB per droplet?

While 1 EC2 instance may not use more then 1 GB (which is a very low quota unless your CDNing everything), if you have a couple of instances your almost certainly going over that.

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