Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot InstancesDecember 13, 2009 • 1109 words Today we launched a new option for acquiring Amazon EC2 Compute resources: Spot Instances. Using this option, customers bid any price they like on unused Amazon EC2 capacity and run those instances for as long their bid exceeds the current "Spot Price." Spot Instances are ideal for tasks that can be flexible as to when t