Amazon Auctions Spare EC2 Server Capacity

摘要

A mazon is giving its Elas-tic Compute Cloud customers the ability to bid on unused computing capacity. The new acquisition model, called spot instances, lets Amazon Web Services users bid for computing power and pay by the hour -on Windows and Linux servers, for example-and have their jobs processed if their bid exceeds Amazon'srnfluctuating "spot price."rnThe spot price is determined by supply and demand, says Amazon CTO Werner Vogels in a blog post.