Posts by Christopher. 5 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Nov 2009
As you say: "the Google man uses Amazon's standard pricing for instances, rather than its reserved pricing."
There's a *vast* difference between those prices.
$0.68 per hour without reserving an instance,
$0.24 per hour when you reserve an instance (for a $2800 once-every-three-years reservation fee).
This knocks the monthly price down from $118k to under $55k.
If you're lucky enough to have avoided using VbV until now, you can continue to do so, even if a site prompts you to sign up:
Complete all the details on the first page of the signup (DoB, email address etc) and hit continue.
On the second page, there's a "Cancel" link at the bottom right.
Hit that and you'll be cheerily returned to the merchant where your transaction will have completed, and you still won't have a VbV account.
Has been working for me for the past few years...
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