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AWS Spot Market Arbitrage Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bid Scott VanDenPlas scott@ elelsee.com awsofa.info A ( crappy ) Primer to Magic Internet Money You cannot make money doing this. (currently.) There was a


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AWS Spot Market Arbitrage

Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bid

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Scott VanDenPlas

  • scott@

elelsee.com

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awsofa.info

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A (crappy) Primer to Magic Internet Money

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You cannot make money doing this.

(currently.)

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There was a time you could.

Five months ago.

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g2.2xlarge

New generation. Single GPU.

  • CPU 34.09 khash/s

GPU 196.08 khash/s

  • 230.17 khash/s

$0.650 per Hour

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Old generation. Dual GPU.

  • CPU 52.51 khash/s

GPU 311.4 khash/s

  • 363.91 khash/s

$2.100 per Hour

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Earning Potential.

g2.2xl $0.076 hourly. cg1.4xl $0.120 hourly.

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Uh… not so much.

g2.2xl $0.076 hourly. cg1.4xl $0.120 hourly.

  • On Demand

g2.2xl $0.650 hourly. cg1.4xl $2.100 hourly.

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Spot Instance Pricing

Region

  • Availability Zone
  • Account
  • Instance Type
  • Operating System
  • VPC
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No amount of money makes it worth it to run Windows.

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AMI Defenestration.

  • Yep, it is possible.
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Proof.

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Now I need 3000 of these.

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Advice from my lawyer.

  • We are not legally laundering money from
  • ur AWS Partner Account.
  • I am not implying that ever occurred.
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@scottvdp /in/scottvdp