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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by WrtCdEvrydy on Monday November 02, 2020 @08:28AM (#24967899)
AWS also gives you a lot of cost savings for using Spot and signing contracts with minimum spends. Only a small shop pays full price for anything.
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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by shiftpgdn on Monday November 02, 2020 @09:03AM (#24968203)
Okay but then you have to engineer your application around interuptable spot instances. You're also making a 36 month commitment when you sign that contract (generally buying the hardware for Amazon.)
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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by WrtCdEvrydy on Monday November 02, 2020 @09:38AM (#24968539)
> you have to engineer your application around interuptable spot instances

This is where your ALBs and ASGs come in. If your app doesn't use local writing and you can shift your caching to a shared cache, the cost savings are good.

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