Deconstructing Amazon EC2 Spot Instance Pricing

By Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda, Muli Ben-Yehuda, Assaf Schuster, Dan Tsafrir. 2011 IEEE Third International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, 2011

455 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research

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2. Andrew A. Chien
3. Rolf Stadler
4. R. Wolski
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1. Sharrukh Zaman
2. Daniel Grosu

Citations in the corpus

• The Zero-Carbon Cloud: High-Value, Dispatchable Demand for Renewable Power Generators (2015, methodology): “T o explore economic viability,we compare ZCCloud’s volatile computing resources to Amazon’s Spot instances model (Ben-Yehuda et al., 2013; Amazon, 2015a) that supports highthroughput computing jobs.”
• Combinatorial Auction-Based Allocation of Virtual Machine Instances in Clouds (2010, background): “[7] analyzed the pricing of Amazon EC2 and claimed that it is not market-driven.”
• Resource Management in Clouds: Survey and Research Challenges (2015, background): “4, in 2009 Amazon introduced dynamically priced Amazon Spot Instances; this motivated efforts by researchers to reverse engineer the pricing strategy for these instances [5, 114].”