You're describing exactly https://hyper.sh.

nogox · on Sept 19, 2017

Or Azure ACI.

Per-second billing doesn't add much value to EC2.

WalterGR · on Sept 19, 2017

EC2's granularity was hourly before. That's the value being added.

nogox · on Sept 19, 2017

Per-minute billing makes more sense to EC2, given the reason above.

shawabawa3 · on Sept 19, 2017

Well, on average it's per-minute billing with a 30 second discount.

I agree it's basically marketing from AWS, but it's still strictly better than per minute billing