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Agreed that it's definitely difficult to know the true missed revenue here without internal data, and even then you'd be making some assumptions. I am confident
by ericpauley 4y ago
Agreed that it's definitely difficult to know the true missed revenue here without internal data, and even then you'd be making some assumptions. I am confident there is some missed revenue here, as amazon routinely has spot capacity constraints under existing prices so could definitely sell some substitute instances without moving the original instance market (even one instance per pool substituted equates to >$1M per year). In either case, a savvy organization can definitely benefit from the price discrepancy even if Amazon couldn't.
- Moissanite 4y agoI can agree that there is missed revenue - but realistically it wouldale much more sense to sell that capacity via Fargate (which is closer to undifferentiated generic compute and RAM) rather than monkeying with the spot pricing algorithm.
- ericpauley 4y agoGreat point on Fargate, I'd be very curious on whether they select capacity for that from EC2 capcity or if there's a separate physical footprint for it.