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David Kobia
@kobia.dev

Recently discovered AWS Fargate Spot instances. So far they're proving really useful for non-critical background tasks with a potential 70% savings. Worth noting that a task can run a mix of regular and spot instances. aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aw...

aws.amazon.comAWS Fargate Spot Now Generally Available | Amazon Web ServicesToday at AWS re:Invent 2019 we announced AWS Fargate Spot. Fargate Spot is a new capability on AWS Fargate that can run interruption tolerant Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Tasks at up ...

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David Kobia
@kobia.dev

An update. Fargate Spot instances have some quirks. Currently testing 60/40 ratio of fargate_spot vs fargate tasks just to guarantee availability in case AWS yanks the spots back. A how-to here: aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...

aws.amazon.comDeep dive into Fargate Spot to run your ECS Tasks for up to 70% less | Amazon Web ServicesAuthor: Pritam Pal, Sr. EC2 Spot Specialist SA AWS launched AWS Fargate Spot during late 2019 for customers looking for a cost effective way to run containers. This blog dives deep into how to use ECS...