GCP Preemptible VMs vs AWS Spot Instances
“Google's prices are fixed, whereas AWS uses a market model”.
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Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing dants.github.io
“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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Product Development as Iterated Taste commoncog.com
AWS sacrificed the simplicity of subscription pricing for S3 and went instead with a safe cost-following strategy because they had no clue how the users will use their service.
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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.”
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