> not ideal for long running/cache/database style services. Well, one question to ask yourself when considering going down this route is whether it makes more

> not ideal for long running/cache/database style services. Well, one question to ask yourself when considering going down this route is whether it makes more sense to move all the statefulness into managed services, like Aurora, BigTable, S3, etc. That drastically simplifies life. Now the only infrastructure directly managed by you are stateless workloads that can easily be self-healed, rolled back, scaled up/down, etc. Managed DBs are more expensive than running your own DB, but most likely the cost savings of moving the rest of the infrastructure to spot/preemptible outweighs this difference.