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I'm not sure if Amazon has enough batch-processing type work to make this effective. You can't run amazon.com with these resources because their needs are infle

I'm not sure if Amazon has enough batch-processing type work to make this effective. You can't run amazon.com with these resources because their needs are inflexible. Actually not sure about Google either – their preemtible instances are sold at an 80% discount, so that puts an upper bound on the usefulness of these machines for them.

matt_wulfeck 10y ago
Amazons largest "batch" job is their holiday shopping season. They must purchase the horsepower to get them through that season, and then the rest of the year they can resell it. I believe this was the original motivation for AWS.
- prodigal_erik 10y ago
  A coauthor of the original proposal for AWS denies that: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/cloud-computing/the-myth-about-how-amazon-s-web-service-started-just-won-t-die.amp.html http://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/cloud-computing/...
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- dragonwriter 10y ago
  If it was, they'd have to shutdown AWS for the holidays.