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So in a sense "reserved instances" are more like time sharing then.
by 0xCMP 9y ago
So 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.