目前最广泛的云计算平台有两个,一个是Google App Engine(简称GAE),另一个则是Amazon Web Service(简称AWS)。虽然GAE提供了很方便的编程框架和工具,并且收费模式更吸引人,但Geoserver并不能在GAE中运行,原因可以参考我的这篇博客。因此目前最佳选择是使用AWS,好消息是AWS最近推出了一年免费使用的套餐:AWS Free Usage Tier,套餐包括:
AWS Free Usage Tier (Per Month):
- 750 hours of Amazon EC2 Linux Micro Instance usage (613 MB of memory and 32-bit and 64-bit platform support) – enough hours to run continuously each month
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- 750 hours of an Elastic Load Balancer plus 15 GB data processing*
- 10 GB of Amazon Elastic Block Storage, plus 1 million I/Os, 1 GB of snapshot storage, 10,000 snapshot Get Requests and 1,000 snapshot Put Requests
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- 5 GB of Amazon S3 storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests
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- 30 GB per of internet data transfer (15 GB of data transfer “in” and 15 GB of data transfer “out” across all services except Amazon CloudFront)
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- 25 Amazon SimpleDB Machine Hours and 1 GB of Storage
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