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EC2 Spot Instances

Spot instancesΒΆ

  • short workloads, for cheap, can lose instances

  • Can get a discount of up to 90% compared to EC2 On Demand Instances

  • You bid a price and get the instance as long as it's price is under the price
  • Price varies on offer and demand
  • Spot instances are reclaimed with a 2 minute notification warning when the spot price goes above your bid
  • Used for [[batch jobs]], [[Big Data analysis]], or workloads that are resilient to failures.
  • Not great for [[critical jobs]] or [[databases]].