It isn't a lottery as much as an availability constraint. First you have a limit of 1 stardust per datacenter per customer. Second, they only spin up a fixed n

It isn't a lottery as much as an availability constraint. First you have a limit of 1 stardust per datacenter per customer. Second, they only spin up a fixed number of new stardust servers per day. It is a loss leader just like in any other business. They are losing money on one instance to get you in the door and you realize their other services are awesome.