Amazon has been open about its HPC instance pricing model, but to get more in-depth answers in context, I put a few questions to Business Development Manager at Amazon Web Services, Deepak Singh about how the pricing works in practical context. His fully developed answers might help us to shed some light on that ages-old question: to buy a cluster, to rent one, or to automatically spin up nodes as needed in a pay-as I go fashion?
Cloudy Costs for Amazon’s New HPC Offering
July 16, 2010