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Re:AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory by slaman on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @03:15PM (#11724883)
because they can only put these into racks so fast
Re:AWS X1 instances – 1.9 TB of memory by nucleardog on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @04:20PM (#11725540)
And to prevent a run-away script from suddenly spooling up thirty of them. Besides issues with their hardware capacity, they're generally pretty good about refunding mistakes like that, so they're eating the cost...