Re:AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That's Now Wrong
by mdaniel on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @05:41PM
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To "me, too" this, it's not like that AWS spot instance just go "poof," they do actually warn you (my recollection is 60s in advance of the TerminateInstance call), and so a resiliency plane on top of the workloads (such as the cited Kubernetes) can make that a decided "non-event". Shout out to the reverse uptime crew, a subset of Chaos Engineering
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Re:AWS in 2025: The Stuff You Think You Know That's Now Wrong
by cptnntsoobv on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @09:48PM
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The spot termination warnings arrive 120 seconds before termination https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/spot-ins...