Correct, resident instances (those from always-on or
min-idle-instances) are billed differently than dynamic instances. A
resident instance is always assumed to be active, although it does not
show up on the active-instances-graph, which is confusing.

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:08 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> There is an issue currently that the billing history comparison does not
> work like whatever Jon describes - and it may be because of the 3 resident
> instances.
> For example with my 3 resident instances being almost idle 100% of the day,
> I still get a comparison bill which includes 3x24 hours resident instances
> every day with max idle instance=1 (should be billable under free quota
> according to Jon).
>
> I understand we will not be able to test the min idle instance setting until
> the new billing gets rolled out - and the current billing comparison is not
> really what we'll get on this particular case. Or maybe what Jon describes
> as theory is not what happens in practice.
>
> Until we can set min idle instances,  we will not be able to confirm that
> what Jon describes is actually what happens.
>
> My 2 cents is that we're still in it for lots of surprises given the overall
> confusion and contradictory user reports (not accounting for the new bugs
> found relating to the scheduler).
>
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