Ho Hum… EC2
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So I’ve been using EC2 for the last few days and while it’s a super idea in principle it’s pricing model is just a little unfair. Amazon say that per instance hour you will be charged $0.10 - great! But wait… even when your virtual instance is running at 98, 99% idle you are still being charged 
A quick calculation and using EC2, for just computing power, is going to cost $67.20 per instance…. for potentially doing nothing!
Yes I know an idle machine is taking resources, but surely the guys can come up with more innovative things? Dynamic and predictive computing resource allocation anyone? Seems others are beginning to wake from dreams too
