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There's really no financial incentive to do so.

• tomschlick 11y ago
  There is when they keep refunding people for having their account hijacked and on the other end are giving away CPU resources to the bitcoin miners.
  • ohashi 11y ago
    Here's a hypothetical, what is the real cost, he said they were using spot instances too. A huge spike in demand might have an effect on price, pushing the cost up for all legitimate users. As far as the reserved instances, they were there, not being used presumably. They don't really lose anything except possibly some electricity and bandwidth costs?
• travoc 11y ago
  When people run up a huge bill and don't pay it, that's an incentive.
  • toomuchtodo 11y ago
    The profit margin on AWS is stupid high. It costs Amazon nothing but power and opportunity cost to refund unintended use.
• choward 11y ago
  What about the potential customers they lose?