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Spot Instances Won’t Commoditize the Cloud, and That’s OK This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

  • Sunday, December 20, 2009

Amazon's new Spot Instances are a step toward a commodity market for CPUs, but there's a ways to go. At this point, that might be a good thing.

Amazon Web Services’ new Spot Instances pricing model has created quite a buzz among commentators wondering what it means for the future of cloud computing. Some suggest it signals the advent of a commodity market for cloud resources, where CPU prices always are fluctuating based on what buyers are willing to pay. The consensus seems to be that cloudwide market pricing would be a good thing. Indeed, AWS spot pricing probably is the first step [...]

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