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Contributed by Deepthi Chelupati and Roshni Pary HAQM EC2 Spot Instances offer spare compute capacity in the AWS Cloud at steep discounts. Customers—including Yelp, NASA JPL, FINRA, and Autodesk—use Spot Instances to reduce costs and get faster results. Spot Instances provide acceleration, scale, and deep cost savings to big data workloads, containerized applications such as […]

HAQM EC2 Spot Instances are spare compute capacity in the AWS Cloud available to you at steep discounts compared to On-Demand prices. The only difference between On-Demand Instances and Spot Instances is that Spot Instances can be interrupted by HAQM EC2 with two minutes of notification when EC2 needs the capacity back. Customers have been […]

This post was contributed by: Konstantin WilmsSolutions Architect Shawn PrzybillaSolutions Architect Chad SchmutzerSolutions Architect With the explosion in virtual reality (VR) technologies over the past few years, we’ve had an increasing number of customers ask us for advice and best practices around deploying their VR-based products and service offerings on the AWS Cloud. It soon […]

September 8, 2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. Madhuri Peri Sr. DevOps Consultant When you use HAQM Relational Database Service (HAQM RDS), depending on the logging levels on the RDS instances and the volume of transactions, you could generate a lot of log data. To ensure that everything […]

This post was graciously contributed by: Chad Schmutzer Solutions Architect Shawn O’Connor Solutions Architect Today we are excited to announce that HAQM EC2 Container Service (HAQM ECS) now supports the ability to launch your ECS cluster on HAQM EC2 Spot Instances directly from the ECS console. Spot Instances allow you to bid on spare HAQM […]

Tipu Qureshi, AWS Senior Cloud Support Engineer With Spot Instances, you can save up to 90% of costs by bidding on spare HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instances. This reference architecture is meant to help enable you to realize cost savings for batch processing applications while maintaining high availability. We recommend tailoring and testing […]

Tipu Qureshi, AWS Senior Cloud Support Engineer This blog post describes a reference architecture that utilizes Spot Instances and is meant to help enable you to realize additional cost savings for your stateless web tier while maintaining high availability. We recommend tailoring and testing it for your application before implementing it to a production environment. […]