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Launching EC2 Auto Scaling Groups with mix of Spot and On-Demand Instances

4 pointsby talawahdotnetover 6 years ago

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talawahdotnetover 6 years ago
This is awesome! We now have the ability to fully customize the trade off between cost and interruption while still guaranteeing a base level of capacity&#x2F;reliability.<p>This should make it much easier to run properly containerized web apps using (a percentage of) Spot instances without worrying.<p>In some cases the two minute Spot interruption warning time would be sufficient to launch a new instance and avoid a drop in capacity, but I don&#x27;t get the impression that AWS handles this for you. I need to look into this some more.<p>Of course you shouldn&#x27;t ignore the additional complexity this brings, so be sure to understand, design and test the different scaling and failure scenarios!