Getting back to t1.micros

[José Antonio Rey]

Hello everyone,

For the past year I have been charming in AWS t1.micro instances. These
have been great resources, and allowed me and others to get started with
charming and knowing the ecosystem. However, I have recently found out that
the support for this instance type has been basically deprecated, and being
replaced by t2.micros. However, I would like to propose getting back to
t1.* as a standard for the following reasons:

* t2.* instances only allow you to have 10% of the CPU power on the machine
as a basis. They use a credits system, where you can only get 100% CPU use
for a limited period of time, compared to the t1.micro instances, where you
would get 100% CPU usage straightforward, with no credit system. This also
allows you to get more out of the machine, and is ideal for developing
charms.
* t1.micro instances are part of the free tier, and way cheaper than
m1.smalls (which are the Juju default), allowing *anyone* to either get the
free tier and start charming away, or do it for a super low cost.
* When I set the same constraints at bootstrap, it just gives me an error
saying it uses a different HDD type. Could we at least get that fixed?

I would like to hear your opinions on getting t1.* back as a default. It
was a great resource, and now I can't even get it by forcing it because it
will throw errors.

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José Antonio Rey
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