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Re:Amazon EC2 Mac Instances by Aeolun on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:54AM (#25275554)
> MacStadium's prices are "rather less than 20%" of AWS's prices. To make sense, AWS would have to be comparable to MacStadium's pricing.

Not at all. MacStadium is not inside the AWS network, so there’s nothing comparable about it.

I’m not sure why they went for a 24h minimum though. That defeats the entire point of cloud computing for me.

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Re:Amazon EC2 Mac Instances by mackey on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:34AM (#25276648)
That 24 hour minimum is based on Apple license agreement.
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