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Re:EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware by comstock on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:13AM (#15804738)
I assume you can spin up new instances easily, and they’ll have per-hour billing. You don’t usually get that with dedicated servers.

It sounds a bit like MAAS [1], which allows you to throw images onto, and manage real servers easily, very much like you might spin up VMs on AWS.

[1] https://maas.io

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Re:EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware by _msw_ on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @12:43AM (#15804862)
These are billed the same as any other EC2 instance: per second.
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Re:EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware by dummyfunnytoo on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @06:36AM (#15806071)
Just to point out, per second billing is incredibly recent for EC2:

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/10/announcin...

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