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EC2 spot blocks already provide support for keeping spot instances for a specified period of time.
by catwithribbon 11y ago
EC2 spot blocks already provide support for keeping spot instances for a specified period of time.
- boulos 11y agoThe price of spot blocks still varies (so in this case, trying to create new ones would likely have been very expensive), are limited to 1-6 hours, and have a substantially smaller discount. When you add the hourly billing vs per-minute, it's very rare that spot blocks comes out ahead. Don't get me wrong, if you're on AWS and know your duration, use them!