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You are a brave soul to use Spot instance for key services. Just curious, what kind of workload do you do on the spot instances? Fact: spot instances are usuall
by yeukhon 11y ago
You are a brave soul to use Spot instance for key services. Just curious, what kind of workload do you do on the spot instances? Fact: spot instances are usually cheaper and more stable in a less dense region outside of U.S. if you don't care about latency.
- bmurphy1976 11y agoWe manage hundreds of servers and have been migrating more and more to spot instances in order to save on costs. It was only a portion of our infrastructure, but it was just enough to cause us grief. Given the volume of servers and the velocity with which our software has been changing, I'll readily admit it's been a challenge keeping ahead of everything and we definitely went a little too far with the spot instances in a few places, but we just haven't seen this failure mode before so we got overconfident.