On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Raymond C. <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2) If you doing a regular job, then reserved instances would most > likely save you money. > > But you pay for 24hr per days for each reserved instance even you are not > using them. So in my hourly report case, instead of wasting 15 min x N > instance per hour, you are going to waste 45 min x N instance if the > MapReduce task finish in 15 min ( more if the task complete earlier). > Reserved instance cost 5/8, that means reserved instance will cost you 5/8 > x 3 = 1.8 times on the idle CPU. > Hi Raymond, reserved as actually reserved instance-hours. They are a pre-commitment to buying a certain number of instance hours per week. The instance-hours can be spent as you see fit. So, to be clear you are NOT paying for 24hr per day for each reserved instance even if you are not using them. Greg > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
