{"id":3592,"date":"2012-09-12T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2359510"},"modified":"2012-09-12T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T19:13:00","slug":"amazon-starts-spot-market-for-reserved-instances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/amazon-starts-spot-market-for-reserved-instances\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Starts Spot Market for Reserved Instances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Web Services has set up an online marketplace where customers can sell their excess EC2 Reserved Instances to other AWS customers.<br \/>\nReserved Instances cost less because buyers make a one-time payment to reserve compute capacity for a specified term and get a discount on the hourly charges for that instance.<br \/>\nAmazon will charge sellers a 12% fee.<br \/>\nInterested parties can browse the site for term lengths and pricing options outside the standard one-year and three-year term lengths.<br \/>\nAWS suggests owners may want to move instances to a new AWS Region, change to a new instance type or sell capacity for projects that end before the term expires. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2359510\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Web Services has set up an online marketplace where customers can sell their excess EC2 Reserved Instances to other AWS customers.<br \/>\nReserved Instances cost less because buyers make a one-time payment to reserve compute capacity for a specified t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}