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by matwood 2701 days ago
> On AWS, if you outgrow, you have to frikking sell off your machines on their auctions and buy new ones.

I don't believe this is entirely true. The AWS reserved credits are good within the machine family. So a t2 credit is good for all t2 instance sizes. Not as flexible as CPU/RAM credits, but more so than it was in the past.
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sandGorgon 2701 days ago
true - but in multiples of instances. so 2xt2.xlarge = 1 t2.2xlarge. But if you have 3xt2.xlarge, then the swap cannot be partially for 2xt2.2xlarge . So you have to sell one of the t2.xlarge.

its not very nice. that's why they have a reserved instance marketplace - https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/reserved-insta...

what is new is the convertible reserved instances. I havent used it - and you may be right there. But i still maintain the GCP/Azure way is light years better

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matwood 2700 days ago
Which is why amazon’s own tool suggests buying smalls or nanos.

I do think gcp and azure do it better though.

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