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Check CPU/Volume credits on AWS T micro/nano/small instances

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T instances and Gentoo AWS t2/t3/t3a/t4g nano/micro/small instances is not the best choice for compilation of heavy applications, especially on Gentoo where every package is compiled from source code. However, these small T instances are very cost-effective and could be used as playground or for small projects. Before upgrading any heavy package like gcc, glibc, … Continue reading Check CPU/Volume credits on AWS T micro/nano/small instances

Gentoo on AWS

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Introduction This article was recently updated (as of 2020-10-18) to better fit current realities ;-). There are a lot of Gentoo AMI images available for free on Amazon Marketplace but all of them are either outdated or are from untrusted sources. By the way, the lack of official guidelines how to install Gentoo on EC2 … Continue reading Gentoo on AWS