That sounds like an architecture choice? One that would cause less revenue on the AWS side, with a conflicting incentive there.

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tacker2000 9 hours ago | parent [-]

to be fair, im not sure its a conscious choice, since its not really easy to couple lets say data transfer bytes directly to billing data in real time, and im sure that would also use up a lot of resources.

But of course, the incentive to optimize this is not there.

	▲	lenkite 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		AWS already does per hour billing for spot instances.
	▲	pixl97 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I mean, generally real time isn't needed. Even hourly updates could save a massive amount of headache. 24 hours or more is becoming excessive.