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I understand a fractional machine being wasted, but I'm a little confused as to the pricing. $10/hour => $10 x 24 x 30 = $7200/month?

I understand its useful if your running thousands of instances but I don't see the value in it as a public service. Wouldn't it be much cheaper for small clients to simply take your business elsewhere where you can get high-end servers in the $2000 range?

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This looks like a fixed cost per region, rather than a cost per instance. If so, it might actually end up being quite cost-efficient.

"we add a $10/hour charge whenever you have at least one Dedicated Instance running in a Region. When figured as a per-instance cost, this charge will asymptotically approach $0 (per instance) for customers that run hundreds or thousands of instances"

The point here is customers concerned about security, like the government. It's a good call to make the public aware of the feature for when these big customers are evaluating AWS.

Yes, nobody with less than 50 servers will want to even think about this, but that's not who it's targeted at. Plus, anyone who cares about security to the extent of isolating VMs physically won't care too much about the cost.

I was all excited until I saw that $10/hour charge. I guess they're targeting high end users, but it would have been nice if they had priced this within the budget of a 'normal' person. This doesn't seem to be in line with their pricing strategy for all the other AWS services.

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