AWS re:Invent 2017 - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

Опубликовано 12 декабря 2017, 23:27

Amazon EC2 Spot instances are spare compute capacity in the AWS cloud available to you at steep discounts compared to On-Demand prices. EC2 Spot enables you to optimize your costs on the AWS cloud and scale your application's throughput up to 10X for the same budget. By simply selecting Spot when launching EC2 instances, you can save up-to 90% on On-Demand prices. Learn more at - amzn.to/2z4tUvL.

The only difference between On-Demand instances and Spot Instances is that Spot instances can be interrupted by EC2 with two minutes of notification when the EC2 needs the capacity back. You can use EC2 Spot for various fault-tolerant and flexible applications, such as test & development environments, stateless web servers, image rendering, video transcoding, and to run analytics, machine learning and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. EC2 Spot is tightly integrated with other AWS services including EMR, Auto Scaling, Elastic Container Service (ECS), CloudFormation, Data Pipeline and AWS Batch, providing you freedom of choice in how you launch and maintain your applications running on Spot instances.

AWS also offers Spot Fleet, which automates the management of Spot instances. You simply tell Spot Fleet how much capacity you need and Fleet does the rest.