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So, spot instances?

• Waterluvian 3y ago
  I looked it up and it seems like that’s what they’re selling yeah! Though aws advertising really doesn’t want to say how they’re so cheap on their front page!
  • tnmom 3y ago
    Their marginal cost for you using otherwise-unutilized capacity is near zero; probably just power really. So if it’s a choice between getting $0 and $0.1 for a $1/hr instance, that’s an easy choice. You just have to be sure to make the spot stuff juuust unreliable enough that people can’t run their full workloads on it all the time.
    • skeeter2020 3y ago
      if you've got the engineering in place for distributed fault tolerance you can run a lot of your workload on pre-emptable spot instances. There's an entire "as a service" product space that does this, abstracting away the challenging parts and arbitraging the difference
      • _zoltan_ 3y ago
        could you name a few such aaS service?
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