Figure 16From: Correcting a financial brokerage model for cloud computing: closing the window of opportunity for commercialisationSnapshot of US-East ARIM quote prices for all instance types, 14th March 2014 13:14 GMT, with bubble area proportional to liquidity (volume) at a specific price. An effective hourly rate index of 1 indicates that an instance is listed at the linear drop price. Values below (above) 1 indicate instance is listed at a price below (above) the linear drop price. Clearly, the majority of instances are listed at or below the linear drop price (index ≤1).Back to article page