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when amazon started to offer <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot-instances/">spot instances</a>
in december 2009, i quickly hacked a little sinatra app that displayed the spot price history as
interactive flash charts.
<b>unfortunately, due to time constraints i cannot maintain this website any longer.</b>
this website used to display interactive charts of amazon <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot-instances/">spot instance</a> prices.
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tlossen/sets/72157622914147115/"><img src="/img/screenshot.jpg"></a>
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<p>
if you want to build something similar, feel free to use
<b>unfortunately, due to time constraints i cannot maintain this service any longer.</b>
but if you want to build something similar, feel free to use
<a href="https://github.com/tlossen/cloudexchange.org">my code</a> as a starting point.
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you might also want to check out the
<a href="http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/users/wwwb/cgi-bin/tr-info.cgi/2011/CS/CS-2011-09">interesting paper</a>
by orna ben-yehuda et. al., which tries to reverse-engineer the pricing algorithm used by amazon, and concludes
that prices <i>"are usually not market-driven as sometimes previously assumed. Rather, they are typically generated
that prices <i>"are usually not market-driven as sometimes previously assumed. Rather, they are typically generated
<b>at random</b> from within a tight price interval"</i>.
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<a href="http://tim.lossen.de">tim</a>, january 2012
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