Love this thread. If you are using K8s and want to reduce both the time you spend managing compute infra and the associated cloud costs (whether for AWS, Azure

Love this thread. If you are using K8s and want to reduce both the time you spend managing compute infra and the associated cloud costs (whether for AWS, Azure or GCP) a Spot Instance or Preemtible VM, DIY approach is certainly possible, but will require a lot of setup work. Imagine handling multiple autoscaling groups for multiple Spot Instance types - an absolute necessity to diversify interruption risk, dealing with slow autoscaling or classic autoscaling that only considers cpu/mem and not actual pod requirements or no easy way to create a buffer of spare nodes for high priority workloads that suddenly need capacity, or identifying over-provisioning of machine sizes (based on incorrect pod requirements)which greatly exceed the actual needs of your pods. As an alternative, you can try Spotinst's Ocean product (yes, I work there) for K8s and ECS where not only is your infra management simplified, but you can easily reduce your cloud compute cost by 80%.