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We have switched to using spot instances for our production traffic. If you diversify across instance types and AZs, there's always plenty of capacity. The res
by phamilton 6y ago
We have switched to using spot instances for our production traffic. If you diversify across instance types and AZs, there's always plenty of capacity.
The result is, as one engineer on our team says, you basically run chaos monkey but amazon pays you to do so.
- bdcravens 6y agoI've run a ton of background processing through spot (generally a couple of hundred instances at a time) for many years, and I think I've only lost all capacity once (and that was before fleet)