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ladypine
15y ago
My guess is that those servers, which can be powered down, are not offered as spot instances at all. A spot instance usually pays less than half the price of an on-demand, for the same power consumption. Offering servers that can be shut do
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ladypine
15y ago
Spot instances are used to sell spare capacity. This means the provider is basically selling computing power on machines that have to stay turned on, to allow for flexibility in accommodating needs of deals with better SLAs (e.g., on-demand