Comment by DonHopkins
6 years ago
Amazon's EC2 hourly prices are rounded to mils ($0.011/hour).
https://aws.amazon.com/emr/pricing/
Azure has some hourly prices with ten-thousandths of a cent ($0.0102/hour):
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/pricing/details/virtual-ma...
Microsoft should use gas station 9/10 pricing conventions to just barely undercut Amazon's lowest price $0.011 with $0.0109.
https://www.marketplace.org/2018/10/11/why-do-gas-prices-end...
>“They found out that if you priced your gas 1/10 of a cent below a break point, let’s say 40 cents a gallon, ‘.399’ just looked to the public like 39 cents…”
Tarsnap goes as low as counting attodollars. Yes, that's 10^-18 dollars, judging by the precision with which individual line items and total account funds are reported. Storage price is 250 picodollars per byte-month.
If it’s not possible to charge such amounts, what exactly is the point of the accuracy?
They're usually charging you for a shitload of them!
Tarsnap is prepaid.
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