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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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