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Re:GCP releases Spot VMs, the next generation of Pre-emptibl... by sitkack on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @06:10AM (#28850325)
No shade, but this is a very AWS specific view of cloud. Every cloud has a different resource allocation philosophy, not all the assumptions are the same.
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Re:GCP releases Spot VMs, the next generation of Pre-emptibl... by remram on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @11:33AM (#28853487)
Yeah, GCP spot instances don't vary in price like AWS ("The price adjustments will occur at most once a month").
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Re:GCP releases Spot VMs, the next generation of Pre-emptibl... by ianburrell on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @12:54PM (#28854560)
There is no longer bidding for spot prices on AWS. They moved to model where pay the fixed spot price which isn't based on capacity.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/new-amazon-ec2-spot-pri...

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Re:GCP releases Spot VMs, the next generation of Pre-emptibl... by remram on Thursday October 14, 2021 @12:28AM (#28860524)
Interesting! I think it still updates more than once a month, but that is a significant change that I wasn't aware of, thank you.
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