Amazon Sells Customers On Lonq-Term Use

摘要

Many companies use cloud computing to support their websites and public-facing applications during peak traffic periods. Amazon appears to be increasingly successful at getting them to use the cloud for long-term, steady-state purposes, too.Amazon Web Services' Reserved Instances—an alternative to the company's on-demand virtual servers—are available through one- and three-year agreements. Reserved Instances don't have to run continuously, although one of the options for purchasing them, heavy utilization, assumes they will run most of the time.