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Interesting that you can't simply spin one up on your own; you have to contact AWS to get the process started. Maybe it's simply because of the amount of money
by jcwayne 8y ago
Interesting that you can't simply spin one up on your own; you have to contact AWS to get the process started. Maybe it's simply because of the amount of money you're committing to spend, but I find the possibility that they're now offering an instance type that requires them to physically provision it for you intriguing.
- SteveNuts 8y agoThey've got a few other services that require that, like Snowball and Snowmobile.
- jedberg 8y agoIf you're at the level of spend where paying almost a million dollars for an instance, contacting them isn't too hard. You usually have the email address and phone number of a bunch of people who can get it done in a minute or two. And they don't usually provision it -- they just flip a bit to allow you to use the API to provision it yourself. I think they want the phone call in case you want 10 of them.