[dylan604]

What happens when you need to go out of town for an extended period? If it was just another ${X}aaS, you could temporarily suspend those plant instances and avoid the charges. Their work would be unused during that period anyway, so why pay for it? On-prem would still continue to accrue those charges. Also, what happens if you have your large extended family over for the holidays? Your on-prem plants would be unable to handle the load and start returning 504 type errors. With ${X}aaS you could just spin up a few more instances or even upgrade to larger instance types. Once the family holiday nightmare is over, you just spin them down again.

[agilob]

> Their work would be unused during that period anyway, so why pay for it?

should people in Silesia or Dheli pay triple price of London, because air pollution is bigger problem there, so cleaning air has more value?

[LawTalkingGuy]

Should is a weird word here, they will. It's a market question not a morality question.

[dylan604]

Sure, why shouldn't they be subjected to spot pricing too?