Very little support for AWS hourly
Installed an instance to test drive the product. Tried to connect it to our production database (which uses a forced SSL connection) and was unable to configure. Tried contacting support, and they informed me that they don't offer support with the AWS hourly product. After emailing twice and chatting with a sales rep, a support rep pointed me to the community forums and gave me a few things to try. Was not able to ever connect to the database, although I am sure it is possible. Was not able to actually evaluate the product due to configuration problems.
The long and the short of it is, if you need help getting up and running, they won't help you unless you have purchased a support contract.
Couldn't get it working with VPC
Spent several hours trying to get both EC2 and CloudFormation versions to work in our VPC without any luck...
There should be a way to configure the CloudFormation with a VPC/subnet parameter the template can use when launching EC2 instances.
Terrible. All I see is Your subscription is pending and should be ready momentarily.
Product is not available live or within 10 minutes of setup.
40 minutes later and I still see:
Your subscription is pending and should be ready momentarily.