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Re:Turning web traffic into a Super Computer by ryanlol on Saturday March 03, 2018 @04:38PM (#16511750)
Compared to what? The compute market in general.

AWS is a premium provider charging premium prices, they've essentially priced themselves as the most expensive provider on the market. It feels insane to describe them as "very cheap".

You might as well be calling a Bugatti Chiron "pretty cheap".

Any datacenter provider will be able to sell you compute time at a fraction of the cost of EC2. Look at OVH for example.

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Re:Turning web traffic into a Super Computer by matte_black on Sunday March 04, 2018 @08:00AM (#16514553)
Spot instances are insanely cheap, not talking about EC2.
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Re:Turning web traffic into a Super Computer by ryanlol on Sunday March 04, 2018 @12:09PM (#16515406)
EC2 spot instances are still EC2.
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Re:Turning web traffic into a Super Computer by matte_black on Sunday March 04, 2018 @09:06PM (#16518176)
But cheaper.
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