<story><title>AWS announces per-second billing for EC2 instances</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/18/aws-announces-per-second-billing-for-ec2-instances/?ncid=rss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>user5994461</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s really really difficult to be able to turn on and off instances as needed, like turn a test instance on in the morning when developers come in and turn it off in the evening when they leave.</text></item><item><author>mbesto</author><text>They would legitimately lose a lot of money if they did this now (and I would argue, wouldn&amp;#x27;t make up for it in market share). Most companies I work with who switch to AWS think it&amp;#x27;s a 1:1 conversion in terms of cost from a data center and pretty much just &amp;quot;leave AWS on&amp;quot; not realizing that they are not only paying for computing cost but the hidden cost of being able to scale up more instances quickly.</text></item><item><author>zedpm</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s sure nice, but I&amp;#x27;m waiting for AWS to switch to automatic sustained use discounts [0] like GCP offers.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;compute&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;sustained-use-discounts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;compute&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;sustained-use-discount...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skywhopper</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand. If autoscaling groups are too complicated, just create the instance and stop and start it when you want. You can control permissions via IAM groups and instance tags if you need to be careful. Or you can indirect through a lambda if you need to be super careful.&lt;p&gt;Good morning!
`aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids i-12345678900`&lt;p&gt;Good night!
`aws ec2 stop-instances --instance-ids i-12345678900`</text></comment>
<story><title>AWS announces per-second billing for EC2 instances</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/18/aws-announces-per-second-billing-for-ec2-instances/?ncid=rss</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>user5994461</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s really really difficult to be able to turn on and off instances as needed, like turn a test instance on in the morning when developers come in and turn it off in the evening when they leave.</text></item><item><author>mbesto</author><text>They would legitimately lose a lot of money if they did this now (and I would argue, wouldn&amp;#x27;t make up for it in market share). Most companies I work with who switch to AWS think it&amp;#x27;s a 1:1 conversion in terms of cost from a data center and pretty much just &amp;quot;leave AWS on&amp;quot; not realizing that they are not only paying for computing cost but the hidden cost of being able to scale up more instances quickly.</text></item><item><author>zedpm</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s sure nice, but I&amp;#x27;m waiting for AWS to switch to automatic sustained use discounts [0] like GCP offers.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;compute&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;sustained-use-discounts&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;compute&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;sustained-use-discount...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bdcravens</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;autoscaling&amp;#x2F;latest&amp;#x2F;userguide&amp;#x2F;schedule_time.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;docs.aws.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;autoscaling&amp;#x2F;latest&amp;#x2F;userguide&amp;#x2F;sche...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>