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Sure. It was the correct behavior, inherent to any market system. Like Texas electrical spot market: https://theconversation.com/whats-behind-15-000-electricity-...

But it turns out that this is not a customer-friendly behavior. So AWS decided to remove the bidding out of the equation, and instead terminate instances based on a complicated scoring system.

The idea is that it's easier to deal with the missing compute capacity, which you notice right away, rather than be blindsided with a 100x bill at the end of the month.



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