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rendawlast Wednesday at 5:03 PM1 replyview on HN

We've hit into this a lot lately too, even on AWS. "Elastic" compute, but all the elasticity's gone. It's especially bitter since splitting the costs for spare capacity is the major benefit of scale here...


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mountainriverlast Wednesday at 5:04 PM

Enterprises are just gobbling up all the supply on reserves so they see no need to lower the price.

All the while saying they are "startup friendly".