Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing
“Cloud providers possessing large quantities of spare capacity must either incentivize clients to purchase it or suffer losses. Amazon is the first cloud provider to address this challenge, by allowing clients to bid on spare capacity and by granting resources to bidders while…
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History of Spot Instances spot.rackspace.com
From AWS's original auction-based market (2009-2017) to provider-managed pricing across all major clouds today. Documents how transparent bidding was replaced by opaque algorithms.
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Dynamic Cloud Pricing for Revenue Maximization henryhxu.github.io
“Amazon's spot price is unlikely to be set according to market supply and demand. Rather, price oscillates within a very narrow band most of the time, which is more likely to be an artifact of some pricing algorithm with predetermined reserve price.”
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GCP Preemptible VMs vs AWS Spot Instances news.ycombinator.com
“Google's prices are fixed, whereas AWS uses a market model”.
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AWS EC2 T2 Instances Demystified: Don't Learn The Hard Way roberttisdale.com
An example of really tricky burstable instances which accrues and limits its own amount of CPU usage credits.
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Usage Patterns and the Economics of the Public Cloud mc4f.ee
“We examine the economics of demand and supply in cloud computing. (…) These results explain why fixed prices currently prevail despite the seeming need for time-varying dynamics. Examining the actual CPU utilization provides a lens into the future. (…) demand fluctuations…
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Present or Future: Optimal Pricing for Spot Instances web.archive.org
“Pricing policy of spot resources should be carefully designed and the impact on both present and future should be considered.”
Billing › Marketplace > Cloud Resources: ““Cloud providers possessing large quantities of spare capacity must either incentivize clients to purchase it or suffer losses. Amazon is the first cloud provider to address this challenge, by allowing clients to bid on spare capacity and by granting resources to bidders while…”