Cost of hosting development on Amazon EC2

I’ve noticed there were some searches coming through with people asking how much it costs to host servers on Amazon’s EC2. Without going into detail, last month I ran 3 Linux instances (m1.small) with no EBS and minor S3 usage, which cost me about $200 a month.

Compared to my previous hosting company – hostmonster.com – Amazon is way more expensive. However, I now find that taking care of my server administration needs is much easier and (gasp!) fun.