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Running production workloads in EKS using Spot instances
Running resilient workloads in EKS using Spot instances Spot Instances Overview A Spot Instance is an instance that uses spare EC2 capacity that is available for less than the On-Demand price (up to 90% cheaper), which makes it a very cost efficient option, but comes with some downsides. Spot Instances are interruptible by AWS EC2…