We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billing up to 80%

Re:We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billin... by tuananh on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @04:40AM (#22411934)

It's more complicated than that. Sometimes, the decision is not just in the engineers' hands. eg - our clients (airlines) would very much prefer we use AWS over the smaller, lesser known offering.

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Re:We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billin... by thu2111 on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @05:57AM (#22412228)

What justification do the airlines give for placing demands on your own suppliers?

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Re:We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billin... by tyingq on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @06:13AM (#22412292)

It's pretty common for Fortune 500 type companies to ask for all sorts of intrusive terms they perceive as a benefit to them. Indemnity, long net payment terms, penalties for missed SLA, etc. They could be specifying AWS in this case to reduce latency and/or avoid the internet as a dependency. Maybe the client side is on AWS already, or they already have high bandwidth / dual path via AWS direct connect, and don't wish to do that for a different provider.

The reward being that once you're in, they are too big and slow to ever move away from your product.

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Re:We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billin... by karatestomp on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @12:42PM (#22415250)

"We want it because it makes our lives (specifically, probably some paperwork) easier. Do you still want our money or not?"

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Re:We use Kubernetes and spot instances to reduce EC2 billin... by tuananh on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @06:05AM (#22412266)

i'm not familiar with that part. also sale people can make all kind of promises to close the deal.

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