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		collision on Dec 16, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Realtime charts of EC2 spot prices As people do this, the spot price will rise until you can't reliably use the strategy.

kylec on Dec 16, 2009 [–]

That's what I would figure, but it also makes no sense why it would exceed the on-demand price for the same instance, except perhaps in moments of sudden demand. Maybe Amazon will intentionally make it difficult to move an instance from on-demand to spot and back to discourage this?

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