Hi Ya All!!!
These days I am thinking to do a change in my computers, and start using Altium and Solidworks in the cloud. Those are software that I use from time to time, like one full week every 2 months. They are power hungry and they need windows…. that is a problem becuase I usually have normal computers with linux. So the solution would be to use one of this cloud machines to run these software. I am not sure if I am going to be capable to finish this small project, but is worth to try.
The setup should be like:
- Create a EC2 machine
- Install all the software
- Altium
- Solidworks
- sunshine
- (optional) wireguard server
The steps a priori should be:
- Calculate how much money is it
- Create a EC2 machine and test if it works
- Create a AMI file
- Create another EC2 machine from it.
How much is going to cost?
Requirements per software:
- Altium and solidworks (good enough)
- i5 or later
- 4 GB (8Gb better)
- 10GB hard disk space (Install + User Files)
- SSD
- GPU 2 Gb
- Solidworks (good enough)
It might be that I am not capable to run Altium on Windows server… lets see.
On-demand -> Instance: 0.558/Hour
And the storage of the machine should be around 5/10 € every month.
Architecture design
The instance store is the one that comes with the machine, that is temporary. Long term storage needs to be EBS storage.
Closed and dead
I couldnt create a machine in the cloud becuase AWS has some strict policies. I have seen azure, and maybe would work with the NV4as. But for the moment I am going to close the note here.