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In all the AWS workloads I've dealt with none was ever suited to spot instances
by xref 10y ago
In all the AWS workloads I've dealt with none was ever suited to spot instances
- mattkrea 10y agoWe run a bunch of production workloads on them. Just look at the spot pricing history in US-East-1A and 1B for a good idea at the stability. This is over a year now and only once did I have any sort of interruption and even there it was in only one AZ so of course I had other instances up and able to take the load.
- hagbarddenstore 10y agoYou do know that AWS AZs are different per customer? Your us-east-1a isn't the same as my us-east-1a.
- boulos 10y agoHuh. Do you not use say EMR? We've got lots of folks running Hadoop/Spark either directly or through Dataproc (https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/ https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/). All of our Monte Carlo finance customers as well as the genomics folks at the Broad Institute seem pretty happy. If you're saying they're a bad fit for stateful applications like databases and web backends, I agree ;).
- blackoil 10y agoAll the test infrastructure can easily go on test if you have auto-scaling. Some percentage of production, you can move to Spot.