Your scenario is correct in that terminating and restarting a new instance
charges you again, while stopping and restarting will not. Amazon charges you
at instance request time the entire hourly rate for that instance, whether you
start it at 12:01 or 12:59 and only get one minute of usage. R
Hi,
We're in the planning phases of implementing an Amazon cluster for a
particular workflow. We think volume will be such that it will make
sense to have at least a the manager and a worker node running working
all of the time and will be albe to reduce costs by using the reserved
instance prici
