Deconstructing Amazon EC2 spot instance pricing

Proceedings - 2011 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 304-311

  Ben Yehuda, Orna Agmon ^a   Ben Yehuda, Muli ^a   Schuster, Assaf ^a   Tsafrir, Dan ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amazon EC2; Cloud; Spot instance; Spot price

Indexed keywords

AMAZON EC2; CLOUD PROVIDERS; PRICING ALGORITHM; RESERVE PRICE; REVERSE ENGINEERS; SPARE CAPACITY; SPOT INSTANCE; SPOT PRICE;

CLOUD COMPUTING; CLOUDS; PROFITABILITY;

COSTS;

EID: 84857154371     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CloudCom.2011.48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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