AWS acquires Talen's 960MW nuclear data center campus in Pennsylvania

Re:AWS acquires Talen's 960MW nuclear data center campus in ... by Waterluvian on Monday March 04, 2024 @09:13PM (#39598679)

An API to say “only use the cheaper off peak compute” could make a lot of sense for numerous use cases.

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Re:AWS acquires Talen's 960MW nuclear data center campus in ... by jethro_tell on Monday March 04, 2024 @09:23PM (#39598732)

So, spot instances?

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Re:AWS acquires Talen's 960MW nuclear data center campus in ... by Waterluvian on Monday March 04, 2024 @09:32PM (#39598792)

I looked it up and it seems like that’s what they’re selling yeah! Though aws advertising really doesn’t want to say how they’re so cheap on their front page!

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Re:AWS acquires Talen's 960MW nuclear data center campus in ... by tnmom on Monday March 04, 2024 @10:06PM (#39599023)

Their marginal cost for you using otherwise-unutilized capacity is near zero; probably just power really. So if it’s a choice between getting $0 and $0.1 for a $1/hr instance, that’s an easy choice.

You just have to be sure to make the spot stuff juuust unreliable enough that people can’t run their full workloads on it all the time.

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Re:AWS acquires Talen's 960MW nuclear data center campus in ... by skeeter2020 on Monday March 04, 2024 @11:19PM (#39599402)

if you've got the engineering in place for distributed fault tolerance you can run a lot of your workload on pre-emptable spot instances. There's an entire "as a service" product space that does this, abstracting away the challenging parts and arbitraging the difference

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Re:AWS acquires Talen's 960MW nuclear data center campus in ... by _zoltan_ on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @02:26AM (#39600361)

could you name a few such aaS service?

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