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A Turning Point in IT History: Spot Instances

On December 14, 2009, Amazon Web Services announced Spot Instances, a new option for purchasing and consuming Amazon EC2 compute resources. As the company describes in its announcement, “With Spot Instances, customers bid on unused Amazon EC2 capacity and run those instances for as long as their bid exceeds the current Spot Price.” This unique…
by  \  25 Jun, 2010 \  9:59pm EDT
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