Amazon Web Services announced Spot Instances, a new option for purchasing and consuming Amazon EC2 compute resources. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.

Spot Instances enables customers to bid on unused Amazon EC2 capacity and run those instances for as long as their bid...

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December 14 2009, 8:42am | Original Link »

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