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nslobody

Question: So what happens during the holiday shopping season when Amazon needs their servers back? Do you, as an EC2 customer, get less compute power around those times?

fangyihua

@nslobody

Following the law of supply and demand, the computing power and server time simply become more expensive during these times. Anyway Amazon is making money.

Avesh

For anyone concerned that their EC2 instance will suddenly jump in price, this only applies to Spot Instances, not On-Demand Instances.

Spot-Instances follow a bidding model and are a bit unreliable in the sense that once the hourly price goes above your bid, your instance is automatically shutdown.

Better not use only Spot Instances for Dropbox.