What do 'instances' mean in terms of cloud computing?

google-app-engine cloud cloud-hosting
Click Upvote picture Click Upvote · Aug 20, 2012 · Viewed 11.5k times · Source

While looking through the pricing of some cloud computing hosting services like Google App engine, Amazon, etc, I see terms like $0.0x per instance per hour, etc. What exactly does that mean? Is an instance = X page views, or is there any other way to estimate how many instances I would need?

Answer

nos picture nos · Aug 20, 2012

Generally 1 instance == 1 machine/server (often a virtual machine).

See e.g. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/ and https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/instances

Related questions

Get Public URL for File - Google Cloud Storage - App Engine (Python)

Is there a python equivalent to the getPublicUrl PHP method? $public_url = CloudStorageTools::getPublicUrl("gs://my_bucket/some_file.txt", true); I am storing some files using the Google Cloud Client Library for Python, and I'm trying to figure out …

Read More
What alternatives are there to Google App Engine?

What alternatives are there to GAE, given that I already have a good bit of code working that I would like to keep. In other words, I'm digging python. However, my use case is more of a low number of …

Read More
Sending mass mail without going insane (SendGrid? cloud?)

I need to send regular newsletters, as well as smaller batches, to a 10k strong mailing list, programmatically. We're currently exporting our list and then using Campaign Monitor's web interface to create and send the newsletters. Campaign Monitor is great, …

Read More