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Shouldn't be too high cost if you only run 2x the instances for a short amount of time. A reasonable use of Cloud, IMHO, if you can't figure out a less disruptive bandaid.

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AWS charges instances in 1 hour increments - so you're paying 150% the EC2 costs if you're doing this every 2 hours

AWS has been charging by the second since 2017: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-per-second-billing-for-...

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