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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 12:39:21 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Heads up: Red Hat Enterprise #Linux on AWS Pricing is going up. RHEL instances will now cost more on AWS, GCP, Azure etc. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-enterprise-linux-scalable-pricing-cloud-partners-announcement You may consider another Linux distribution, such as Debian or even FreeBSD, to save money and simplify licensing requirements.

   • Feng Lengshun (fenglengshun@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 15:33:11 JST Feng Lengshun

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     @nixCraft Eh. If they haven't already considered moving, then they probably do *need* RHEL or comfortable with what they are.

     If you don't need RHEL, then you should *already* not be using RHEL. It's in the name, it's an Enterprise tool, not a hobbyist (well, you can use the 20 free licenses for that).

     This post is weird, with how the announcement clearly aimed at Enterprise user, while this post thought it's relevant to hobbyist or that Enterprise should consider hobbyist viewpoints.

   • virer_dot_net (virer_dot_net@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 19:14:45 JST virer_dot_net

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     @nixCraft I think you just need to read the article :

     "...New RHEL pricing [...] will be lower than the current pricing for small VM/instance sizes; at parity for some small and medium VM/instance sizes; and potentially higher than the current pricing for large and very large VM/instance sizes."

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 19:14:45 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • virer_dot_net

     @virer_dot_net yes but for large instances it will be higher which is what many folks use to run certified RHEL apps

   • Matt Terenzio (librenews@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 19:24:15 JST Matt Terenzio

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     @nixCraft FreeBSD is awesome. Wish it was as popular with cloud platforms