Re:Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
by reaperducer on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:37AM
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a company who needed them only a handful of days a year for some reason I can’t immediately think of
Perhaps it's good for render farms. Instead of building a giant render farm that sits idle between productions, you spin up a render farm only when you need one.
Otherwise I agree. 24 hour minimum removes immediate scaling as an option, and for anyone who already has their own infrastructure the cost is prohibitively high. My hope would be that with time, at the very least the 24 hour minimum would eventually be removed, and ideally the price will come down too.