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If you have a lot of workloads running on EC2 virtual machine instances, you have no doubt discovered just how costly those instances can sometimes be. EC2 spot instances offer an option for ...

Spot instances are created from Amazon's leftover EC2 capacity and are deeply discounted because spot instances are subject to interruption if the capacity is needed by an on-demand EC2 instance. Even ...