[brianm]

I was lucky enough to be in the audience for this, and have long wondered (and generally believed) if the questions at https://youtu.be/6nKfFHuouzA?t=2025 lead to reserved instances. The timing was right (reserved instances appeared in early 2009 https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-ec2-reserved-ins...).

Jeff ruminates on the problem a bit, and you can all but see the model come out by the time Jeff finishes answering the followup question :-)

That he thinks it would be interesting to a "subset of users" is kind of amusing :-)

[theWheez]

Wow, you're right! Definitely sounds like something that Bezos hadn't given much thought to (or enough to have had a response), this is a cool observation.