EC2 Spot Instances vs K8s
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we reviewed ec2 Auto scaling yesterday is kind of the jelly to the peanut butter which is spot instances we can think of spot instances from a financial perspective similar how we would use containers or even Lambda the difference is that if we issue a container or Lambda instance that instance fulfills to completion just as long as we don't have any coding or any other errors spot instances uses the SS capacity within the AWS region to run a ec2 instance so one if you can easily survive
failures I.E we were running a process in the middle of that process it fails or stops in the case of a spot instance or it requires a full operating system unlike a container or Lambda spot instances where you can save up to 90 percent of cost on ec2 instances is kind of an amazing advantage and it goes extremely well with auto scaling because you can use Auto scaling policies to implement them well learn more follow us on the web the ctoadvisor.com is the main website AWS
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