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AWS is more expensive for long running instances (Although not so much if you reserve them). However where it (and Rackspace + others) shine is using the API t
by benjiweber 15y ago
AWS is more expensive for long running instances (Although not so much if you reserve them).
However where it (and Rackspace + others) shine is using the API to spin up instances for jobs in scripts, or have your monitoring automatically spin up additional instances to scale up when load increases.