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"Time sharing" is different from "pay for usage". "Time sharing" is "pay X per month and use up to Y hours". "Pay per usage" is "pay X per hour of usage, no m
by ucaetano 9y ago
"Time sharing" is different from "pay for usage".
"Time sharing" is "pay X per month and use up to Y hours".
"Pay per usage" is "pay X per hour of usage, no minimum requirements".
In a time-share it can be very hard to break out of the contract.
- 0xCMP 9y agoSo in a sense "reserved instances" are more like time sharing then.
- ucaetano 9y agoYes, far more flexible, but in some sense yes. The key difference between cloud and the traditional mainframe model is the decoupling between usage and the assets. Time sharing is buying a share of an asset. Reserved instances is pre-commiting to computing utilization.