But that's not what's happening: they aren't keeping a full host for you.
Your argument is like saying that a bus traveler costs the gas needed to power the bus, but it's never the case: the bus would be cruising no matter what. And symmetrically the VM host would be up no matter what you did with your instance.
Sure, but the electricity overhead of keeping one host running just to run an idle VM is not as trivial.
But that's not what's happening: they aren't keeping a full host for you.
Your argument is like saying that a bus traveler costs the gas needed to power the bus, but it's never the case: the bus would be cruising no matter what. And symmetrically the VM host would be up no matter what you did with your instance.
I'm not sure that's true. Shutting down unneeded hardware seems like a very simple but major optimization.
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