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> That's kinda weird.

Not really.

On-demand capacity is (a) what the cloud is known for and (b) a reasonable common denominator.

Reservations get a lot more complicated with policies around usage accounting and transferring and selling them.

Obviously there is a lot more available than hourly VPS (reserved, interruptable), but that's a decent benchmark to start with.




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