I recently noticed a surprising lack of new features being announced for AWS spot market. This disappoints me, as I have had high hopes for this groundbreaking idea since it was initially launched. Assuming spot price is set only through supply and demand, I think the following 3 suggestions could...

When Amazon Web Services launched EC2 spot instances in December 2009, I was very excited about the beginnings of potential revolution in how computing resources could be priced, bought and sold. I have followed this unprecedented phenomenon with great interest, blogging my thoughts along the way. But today, over 1.5...

This is part 5 of my series on pricing in the cloud. The moment a second provider joined Amazon Web Services in offering IaaS cloud computing service, people in the industry started talking about a cloud computing marketplace where providers would be able to list available resources and customers would...

This is part 4 of my pricing in the cloud series. Exactly one year ago - on Monday, December 14, 2009 - Amazon Web Services launched spot pricing as a new feature of Amazon EC2. In a nutshell, spot pricing is a dynamic pricing scheme for EC2 instances. At each...

This is part 3 of my series on pricing in the cloud. Do you think IaaS cloud prices are due for another reduction or will they remain at current levels for now? Regardless of which answer you or I would give to this question, ours is just a guess -...

This is part 2 of my series dedicated to pricing in the cloud. As I mentioned in the past, pricing is one of the most important aspects of cloud computing offerings. Up until now, however, I have been talking about pricing only from perspective of selling the services. This post...

I started writing this post, but realized that it was going to be way too long. So I decided to split it into a series. Here goes part 1 of my series on Pricing in the Cloud. Happy Birthday, Amazon EC2! You are 4 years old now - I wonder...