AWS EC2 Spot instances can now be stopped and started like On-Demand instances
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Re: AWS EC2 Spot instances can now be stopped and started like On-Demand instances
#2Rapidly moving toward compute as a commodity priced in the same way global commodity markets are. Interesting times
Re: AWS EC2 Spot instances can now be stopped and started like On-Demand instances
#3Very cool, been running into issues with this previously trying to manage mixed instances kinds in an asg.
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#4Aws spot instances have saved me so much money... it’s such a great service.
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#5Obviously a response to yesterdays post:
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#6Obviously a response to yesterdays post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22027459
Huh? They’re completely unrelated.
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#7Obviously a response to yesterdays post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22027459
No, they're two different things.
Re: AWS EC2 Spot instances can now be stopped and started like On-Demand instances
#8Spot also supports hibernate on some instance types: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/amazon-ec...
Hibernate is just like good old hibernate from windows XP days. You save the RAM to disk. And resume your processes on next boot and they won't even notice they were stopped! (Except for the time has changed...)
It might be really helpful for low priority batch processing.
Disclaimer: I've never tested this.
Re: AWS EC2 Spot instances can now be stopped and started like On-Demand instances
#9Spot also supports hibernate on some instance types: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/amazon-ec... Hibernate is just like good old hibernate from windows XP days. You save the RAM to disk. And resume your processes on next boot and they won't even notice they were stopped! (Except for the time has changed...) It might be really helpful for low priority batch processing. Disclaimer: I've never tested…
Neat! Did not know that. Thanks :-)
The 100GB RAM cap seems rather limiting though.
The ideal case scenario imho (one step beyond this stop/start-at-will feature) would be "convertible" spot - being able to migrate to on-demand with zero downtime when ec2 needs that capacity back - that'd solve a lot of my problems.
Re: AWS EC2 Spot instances can now be stopped and started like On-Demand instances
#10Spot also supports hibernate on some instance types: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/11/amazon-ec... Hibernate is just like good old hibernate from windows XP days. You save the RAM to disk. And resume your processes on next boot and they won't even notice they were stopped! (Except for the time has changed...) It might be really helpful for low priority batch processing. Disclaimer: I've never tested…
Neat! Did not know that. Thanks :-) The 100GB RAM cap seems rather limiting though. The ideal case scenario imho (one step beyond this stop/start-at-will feature) would be "convertible" spot - being able to migrate to on-demand with zero downtime when ec2 needs that capacity back - that'd solve a lot of my problems.
You can (effectively) do that already -- just set your spot bid to the maximum you're willing to pay, i.e. the on-demand price.