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by lostapathy 3202 days ago
This should enable some entirely new use cases, especially around CI and automation in general.

Per-second billing greatly reduces the overhead to bringing up an instance for a short task then killing it immediately - so I can do that. There's no need to build a buffer layer to add workers to a pool and leave them in the pool, so that you didn't end up paying for 30 hours of instance time to run 30, two-minute tasks within an hour.

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For us it will mean we can spin down Bamboo elastic agents much quicker and save money.