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We run specific components of our application in spot instances across different regions and from what I have seen in the last 3 months is that the price is gen
by jfroma 9y ago
We run specific components of our application in spot instances across different regions and from what I have seen in the last 3 months is that the price is generally much less than 80%. I'd say is less than 20% most of the time, but some times there is a peak and it goes beyond 150% for 1 to 3 hours, the frequency of these events may vary but I'd say once a week.
I think AWS might be cheaper in this regard but less predictable, so it is a tradeoff.
Edit:
I haven't looked yet into "Spot Fleets".
- joshuamorton 9y agoNot 80%, 80% off.
- jfroma 9y agoWops, sorry for my confusion! Then it is definitely interesting :)
- vacri 9y agoLooking at the spot prices on our AWS account (us-east-1), most of the time you're looking at around 25% full price. Some instance types seem to go lower than this (r4 is about 12%) but it looks like the 'resting point' is around 25% for the ones I skimmed.