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I can imagine it being useful if you needed to test something out for an hour or two and were worried you might forget to shut it down. Your charges are capped

• kubanczyk 5y ago
  If a test workload goes wrong in an interesting way, someone would very likely want to ssh there to poke around. If the poking extends to ~24 hours later, it is bound to get brutally interrupted. The worst part, there is no easy way to avoid it. (Well, one could shut it down and start again to reset the 24-hour timer, but that is cumbersome comparing to removing a `shutdown` line from crontab of a spot instance.)