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by WalterGR 3198 days ago
EC2's granularity was hourly before. That's the value being added.
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Per-minute billing makes more sense to EC2, given the reason above.
Well, on average it's per-minute billing with a 30 second discount.

I agree it's basically marketing from AWS, but it's still strictly better than per minute billing