hey folks,

because I'm actively reviewing this and my brain is full I made a mistake
in terminology before...

Reserved Instance - a long term VM contract

Dedicated Host - bare metal server

apologies for the confusion


On 3 January 2018 at 15:54, Paul van den Bergen <[email protected]
> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
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