Spot Instances & Spot Fleets
— Compute, EC2 — 1 min read
Overview
- Up to 90% dsicount vs. On-demand instance prices
- Spot prices varies by capacity and region
- Spot price goes above your max you have 2 mins to either stop or terminate your instance
- Can set spot block for 1-6 hrs, stop instances from being terminated
- Good for these applications:
- big data and analytics
- fault-tolerent
- containerized workloads
- CI/CD
- test & development workloads
- Not good for:
- Critical applications
- datbases
- Persistent workloads