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matt-p • 05/14/2025 • 1 reply • view on HN

I think you're reading a graph for a single tenant not overall infrastructure.

m7i.4xlarge on AWS spot price right now is $0.39/hour whereas renting the server is about half that per hour.


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Havoc • 05/14/2025

No, I'm not. I'm looking at the 5 day average across fleet graph right at the bottom. That shows very roughly 2/3 drop from peak to lowest, while the 80% is from the text as fleet wide.

>whereas renting the server is about half that per hour.

If you're at capacity only 90 out of 730 a month then paying 2x for spot to cover those peaks is a slam dunk