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Understanding Excess Capacity: Amazon EC2 Spot vs. Azure Low-Priority VM vs. Google Preemptible VM vs IBM Transient Servers

Spot instances are transforming how people consume public cloud services. Spot instances are short-lived instances offered by cloud providers for a very low cost compared to on-demand or reserved instances. Cloud providers use spot market as a way to monetize their excess capacity. The price of spot instances vary with the supply and demand but, …

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