Re:Hardware Failure on EC2
by phamilton on Saturday April 17, 2021 @10:43AM
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We have switched to using spot instances for our production traffic. If you diversify across instance types and AZs, there's always plenty of capacity.
The result is, as one engineer on our team says, you basically run chaos monkey but amazon pays you to do so.
Re:Hardware Failure on EC2
by bdcravens on Saturday April 17, 2021 @01:34PM
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I've run a ton of background processing through spot (generally a couple of hundred instances at a time) for many years, and I think I've only lost all capacity once (and that was before fleet)
The result is, as one engineer on our team says, you basically run chaos monkey but amazon pays you to do so.