[Cialug] Anyone using Amazon ECS or other similar services?

[Tim Perdue]

Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> Are the services easy to manage?  How does that work?  Did you have any good references to get started?
> 
> I'm wondering about using ECS or VPS as proxy servers, TOR instances, or first-touch mail servers.

I set up an EC2 instance for a while and it was fine, but it seems like 
a really expensive way to host things IMHO. It's several times more 
expensive than a dedicated server at godaddy for example.