spot price means if you get out bid partway through your hour, you lose that VM and anything running on it (I think there is an option to dump to a s3 bucket or some such - but regardless)
the price is usually so cheap that it's perfect for throwaway computational tasks - hadoop, grid (keep track of the state of your returns independantly), etc, and so on. Also, IIUC it only hits you when demand is larger than supply. On 3 January 2018 at 15:17, Andrew McGlashan via luv-main < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 03/01/18 09:09, Paul van den Bergen via luv-main wrote: > > OK. As of reinvent 2017, AWS introduced bare metal server pricing. As > > far as I understand it, if the hardware breaks, you get a new machine, > > but it's up to you to manage DR. > > > > dedicated instances - it's a long term contract for a VM (not a bare > > metal machine) > > > > on demand - you pay per hour. > > Typically you want a mailserver running 24/7, so about 750 hours every > month. > > > spot price - you pay "bid" for a low priced VM. If someone outbids you, > > you lose the VM. > > Do you mean, you have a box, working... then you get outbid and lose a > working box? > > Kind Regards > AndrewM > > > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main > > -- Dr Paul van den Bergen
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