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Re:We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billin... by halbritt on Monday February 24, 2020 @11:03PM (#22410819)
I'm also puzzled why people wouldn't just use spot fleet with on-demand as backup.
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Re:We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billin... by tuananh on Monday February 24, 2020 @11:33PM (#22410930)
because at the time when we did this (2016-2017), kops did not support spot fleet. worst case scenario, you get mix of reserved + ondemand instances.
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