Multiple Amazon Elastic IP’s, Single Instance
Posted in Hosting by DB
I recently blogged about Amazon’s Elastic IP offering and how this would impact Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud. By addressing one of the more pressing issues with EC2, Amazon has shown that it is willing to listen to their users and with the release of the Elastic IP and Availability zone features, Amazon will see a far greater acceptance of their EC2 platform.
That said, I would still like to see one more addition/enhancement to the Elastic IP feature. I believe by doing this Amazon will see a far greater rollout of their computing cloud vision.
Don’t get me wrong, Elastic IP’s are great and much needed. Moreover Amazon gives you by default 5 Elastic IP’s to use per account with the option of increasing it to a 100. The key constraint though is that you can use only one Elastic IP per instance. So if I had to use all my allocated 100 then I would need to have a hundred instances running. At about $75/month for every small instance running 24/7 I would be looking at close to $8000 each month with all associated costs thrown in.
What I would like to see is the ability to associate more than one Elastic IP’s to one single instance. Many of the applications that I deal with or write do not get traffic that would justify a separate instance but it is important for me to run each application on a separate IP address and not use a shared one. I believe there are quite a few developers and hosts out there that simply love the fact that they can use Amazon’s infrastructure for their hosting needs but the same infrastructure quickly becomes expensive when you try to host all your websites and applications especially if each require a separate IP Address.
While they acknowledge that this is how things stand as of today, that statement itself gives me hope that they are indeed working on making this more flexible and open. I cannot wait for this feature to be available as I will for sure start moving more and more websites from my current hosting account onto Amazon EC2 and S3 platform.
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