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Re:Has Amazon EC2 become over subscribed? (2010) by niggler on Sunday April 21, 2013 @11:26PM (#5587601)
To be fair, though:

"An additional fee is charged once per hour in which at least one Dedicated Instance of any type is running in a Region."

So it's not like they are charging $10/hr/instance (so it amortizes over all of the dedicated instances)

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Re:Has Amazon EC2 become over subscribed? (2010) by jamesaguilar on Monday April 22, 2013 @01:24AM (#5587905)
Still, that's 100k a year, not including the cost of the actual instances. Not an option for smaller services unless your stuff simply can't be made to work without dedicated instances.
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Re:Has Amazon EC2 become over subscribed? (2010) by eurleif on Monday April 22, 2013 @01:27AM (#5587921)
I doubt it would ever make sense to use this over dedicated servers, except at a large scale.
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