Tor-cloud AMI is set to 1TB -> $100/month extra charges
The AMIs for tor-cloud are incorrectly set to use 1024GB of Amazon EBS storage. This translates into ~100/month of extra EC2 charges.
The bad AMIs I found are Tor-Cloud-EC2--us-east-1-04-13-2013-20616 - ami-d09403e0 Tor-Cloud-EC2--us-east-1-04-13-2013-7427 - ami-d29403e2
The first one is the default that is created by the tor-cloud website.
To see this setting,
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search for a tor-cloud AMI from the Amazon community AMIs page or click the "Get started with Tor Cloud" link on cloud.torproject.org and choose a region.
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Click "Review and Launch" button.
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Open the "Storage" fold near the bottom of the page, and confirm 1024GB of storage. Maybe this should be closer to 4GB? (Not sure of the best size.)
I called Amazon to get my charges removed.
To proceed:
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Change the tor-cloud AMIs on Amazon to a smaller storage amount. (4GB?)
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Is there a way to notify current tor-cloud users of this expensive problem?
Trac:
Username: sesotek