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Ooh ooh! Utility CPU futures, anyone?
by gills 17y ago
Ooh ooh! Utility CPU futures, anyone?
- cperciva 17y agoI doubt Amazon wants to go quite that far. Setting up a spot market is one thing; setting up a futures trading floor is quite another. That said, it will be interesting to see if Amazon allows people with Reserved Instances to sell them on the spot market (i.e., pay Amazon the reserved instance rate and keep the difference between that and the spot rate). That wouldn't be quite the same as a futures market, but it would at least allow people to make (very) long-term investments.