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If you could spin up an instance for an hour, this would be useful to those who want to buy from US stores that block by IP (cough Nexus 5 cough), but don't wan
by sker 13y ago
If you could spin up an instance for an hour, this would be useful to those who want to buy from US stores that block by IP (cough Nexus 5 cough), but don't want to go the VPN route.
- phelmig 13y agoUse a proxy server.
- throwaway1979 13y agoI can think of a bunch of other use cases. E.g. Student spinning up an instance to work on an essay or powerpoint presentation. But yes, it looks like the pricing is not by the hour :(
- thematt 13y agoYou can already do that with normal EC2 and for a lot cheaper too because you could use a spot instance.
- crazysim 13y agoYou can do this now. Just fire up an instance and blow it away. I once used it to download a Steam game and tunnel it through a non-quota-counting path back to my computer.
- baruch 13y agoStill need a US credit card :-(