> Even trying to read the amazon pricing for their instances, hours and what not, drives me insane. I get your sentiment but the pricing is that way because th

> Even trying to read the amazon pricing for their instances, hours and what not, drives me insane. I get your sentiment but the pricing is that way because they want to charge you exactly what you use, not for reserving stuff. For example if you deploy a EC2 instance that comes out to be $15/mo total, and you deploy it on say the 10th of the month, do you want to be charged the whole $15? No, you want pro-rated.. But what if you only need that instance for like 6 days? Then what? You gonna do the math to figure out what it would have cost you yourself, or just read it per hour billing?