Spot Instances

• Can get a discount of up to 90% compared to On-demand

• Instances that you can “lose” at any point of time if your max price is less than the current spot price

• The MOST cost-efficient instances in AWS

• Useful for workloads that are resilient to failure

  • Batch jobs

  • Data analysis

  • Image processing

  • Any distributed workloads

  • Workloads with a flexible start and end time

• Not suitable for critical jobs or databases

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