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patwolfe on Dec 2, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Amazon’s cloud Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of ...

I believe you rent a day to buy in, but that’s a day of CPU usage measured by clock time. So it expires based on your usage, not 24 hours later.

csunbird on Dec 2, 2020 [–]

I thought the EC2 pricing model is, even when the instance is shut down, you continue paying, since it is still reserved.

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