Some people (me included) might have wondered why all our m1.large spot instances (in us-west-1) shut down a few hours ago...
Simple reason: The EC2 spot price for Spark's default "m1.large" instances just jumped from 0.016 per hour, to about 0.750. Yes, Fifty times. Probably something to do with world cup. So far this is just us-west-1, but prices have a tendency to equalize across centers as the days pass. Time to make backups and plans. "m3" spot prices are still down at $0.02 (and being new, will be bypassed by older systems), so it would be REAAALLYY nice if there had been some progress on that issue. Let me know if I can help with testing and whatnot. -- Jeremy Lee BCompSci(Hons) The Unorthodox Engineers
