Amazon AWS EC2 Spot Instance takes forever to spawn?

Originally Posted: 18 Jul 2010 12:18 PM PDT

As noted before, I started a reserved instance for hosting an online game project. I also need a processing machine every other day to run 3 processes: my game import, upload game swf and image to S3 and translator for the game meta. I use Amazon’s spot instances to accomplish this. A spot instance is a cheaper instance than an on-demand instance and its pricing is based on availability of excess capacity that Amazon has at any given point in time.
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