[IPython-dev] Easy Installation

[Thomas Kluyver]

On 11 June 2012 01:10, Carl Smith <carl.input at gmail.com> wrote:
> As for the notebooks, they're persistent for so long as you don't
> terminate the instance altogether. You can shut it down and restart it
> later, just like a regular machine, but terminating it, will wipe it
> out. It uses EBS, which are a bit like virtual discs that are just
> made available to your instances. It's all very cloud :)

Cloud indeed ;-). And do you pay for the instance while it's shut
down? Is EBS storage billed separately from the instance run time?

(I'm saving my year's free usage until I think I've got something to
use it for, otherwise I'd sign up & play around with it now)

Thanks,
Thomas