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Spot fleet requests allow you to set minimum specs for instances, and the fleet will be composed of any instances that meet the spec. If it's asynchronous work,
by ericpauley 4y ago
Spot fleet requests allow you to set minimum specs for instances, and the fleet will be composed of any instances that meet the spec. If it's asynchronous work, you could pick lowest price allocation and not worry too much about interruptions. In fact, if your work is tolerant of interruptions (batch size <2min), you can actually save even more by being interrupted, as you don't get billed for partial hours: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/billing-for-interrupted-spot-instances.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/billing-...
- socialismisok 4y agoDoes it launch the fleet at the global minimum price? "Any instances that meet the spec" doesn't seem like it's a worldwide price minimum.
- ericpauley 4y agoYou can set this to emphasize diversity or price when creating the request.
- socialismisok 4y agoAcross all regions? Everything I've seen is only for one region.
- ericpauley 4y agoCorrect, though generally you’d have region constraints on your workload. We do see a lot of value in going cross-region for expensive tasks that aren’t latency or data transfer sensitive, such as running machine learning model training in cheaper regions.