AWS Spot Instances
This cluster centers on discussions recommending AWS EC2 Spot Instances and Reserved Instances as cost-saving alternatives to on-demand pricing for cloud compute, highlighting their affordability, scalability, and usage strategies.
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Use reserve instances or use spot. The price decrease substantially. Then when you don’t need it... you don’t pay it... it’s a good deal
Try spot instances, you'll save a ton of money.
Didn't catch this thanks, spot instances have a bit better rate, but as he mentioned they are billed by hour :)
Check out spot instances. An example of how much more competitive and rapidly scaleable aws and friends are vs the old model.
I heard it uses spot instances perhaps I am wrong.
You can start a spot instance or something like pence and then remove it minutes later.
Did you consider Reserved Instances?
How does their pricing compare to ec2 spot instances?
Netflix pays standard rates for instances but uses reserved instances to pay less on bulk EC2 deployments
Spot instances are super cheap...about 80% less than regular instances.