Why Every DevOps Team Needs a Spot Instance Strategy

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Most DevOps teams use the public cloud extensively and focus a lot of energy on reducing cloud costs. According to one estimate, U.S. businesses spent $14.1 billion in 2019 just on wasted, unused cloud resources.

When another cloud customer requests the spot instance, the cloud provider sends a notification, and you need to immediately move your workloads before the instance is terminated.

You can specify a price, and when a spot instance is offered at that price, it is launched with the Amazon Machine Image (AMI) of your choice.

You can automatically scale instances on Amazon EC2, including both on-demand instances and spot instances in a single auto-scaling group.

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