Amazon’s cloud Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage would buy you your own

Re:Amazon’s cloud Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage w... by patwolfe on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:04AM (#25275939)

This seems misleading. If you needed to use anywhere close to 24 hours of cpu computation per day, wouldn’t you not use a cloud provider? And most tenants will only use a fraction of that per day, so 77 days of CPU usage could take years to use.

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Re:Amazon’s cloud Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage w... by riknox on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:05AM (#25275949)

I thought the point is with the new announcement/EULA terms that a day was the minimum amount of time you could rent from Amazon for. I could have misunderstood of course.

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Re:Amazon’s cloud Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage w... by signal11 on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:24AM (#25276107)

As far as I know, there's a minimum tenancy period of 24 hours, but after that it's like "standard" EC2 where you're billed per second.

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Re:Amazon’s cloud Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage w... by patwolfe on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:06AM (#25275961)

I believe you rent a day to buy in, but that’s a day of CPU usage measured by clock time. So it expires based on your usage, not 24 hours later.

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Re:Amazon’s cloud Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage w... by csunbird on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:18AM (#25276055)

I thought the EC2 pricing model is, even when the instance is shut down, you continue paying, since it is still reserved.

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Re:Amazon’s cloud Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage w... by api on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @08:25AM (#25276112)

This is true for just about any architecture. It's usually a lot cheaper to buy your own machine and put it in a closet if you need it doing work most or all of the time.

The only time that doesn't make sense is if it's customer-facing and needs better than 99.9% uptime or needs a lot of bandwidth, as those things are better done from a data center.

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