The specific projects I’m working on basically process data from an SQS queue. I have a bunch of spot instances set to launch at the minimum prices. If the pric

The specific projects I’m working on basically process data from an SQS queue. I have a bunch of spot instances set to launch at the minimum prices. If the prices jump (which they very rarely do) I simply have less throughput until the prices come back down. I also have a t2 instance as the web frontend. I’m significantly more budget constrained than I am time constrained, these are basically side projects. For specific numbers, the AllThePeople.net web scraping and profile compilation runs on Windows m1.small instances. The normal price is 8 cents per hour each while the spot instance costs me only a couple cents per hour each. I set the majority of my spot requests to the minimum possible price. I leave a couple at a higher price point of 8 cents per hour, so at least I have some work getting done if the prices go up. Those numbers are mostly for memory, it’s been a while since I fiddled with it much.