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I've never heard of anyone buying excess cloud capacity from a private party. Is this a thing? Is there a market for this? Sounds like a security nightmare.
by matt_wulfeck 10y ago
I've never heard of anyone buying excess cloud capacity from a private party. Is this a thing? Is there a market for this? Sounds like a security nightmare.
- ohashi 10y agohttp://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ri-market-selling-guide.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ri-market...
- Alex3917 10y agoAWS reserved marketplace? Security wise it's no different than any other instance; specific machines aren't associated with the party who originally reserved the capacity in any way.
- matt_wulfeck 10y agoThey're still just buying it from Amazon.
- late2part 10y agoYou're right. The deals businesses do at this level preclude you from selling the resources you've purchased at a discount to another party.
- yclept 10y agoYes there are marketplaces for this with some providers like AWS. You are buying capacity (like a voucher) for a server not a particular server.
- dekhn 10y agoCycle Computing does this. ATLAS, an LHC experiment, recently demonstrated this. I even built a product at Google that made this possible. We used Native Client (users compiled their binaries using the NaCl toolchain) as one part of the security container.