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As a maintainer for https://ec2instances.info I absolutely love sites like this. Nice and clean. Just like that site this is statically rendered into a large HTML file and delivered to the client, with data updated every 2 hours via scraping.

And sure enough if you search 'disk prices' or 'harddrive prices' this is the #1 result which I am certain helps with their Amazon Affiliate revenue.

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> https://ec2instances.info

I saw this the other day. What’s the story with the site? Are there “hidden gem” instances that you can find? Or is it just a better GUI for browsing what instances AWS offers?

Well the story started > 10 years ago, I think. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2473941

It's mostly the latter -- a better GUI.

>>I absolutely love sites like this. Nice and clean.

I agree. Although it would be cool if you could sort by column. I wonder if you could sort using a client-side javascript function instead making a new web request.

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