Confused about AWS pricing models? You’ve come to the right place! Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s leading cloud platform, with over 1 million users across 190 countries. Offering a wide variety of cloud services, it caters to almost every possible workload, including secured networking, virtual servers, databases, big data processing, object storage, AI/ML, […]
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Does this scenario sound familiar? You’re in your team meeting ready to hear about new features you’re adding to the development pipeline and other top priorities, when your manager comes in freaking out about cloud costs. Apparently, AWS EC2 pricing has skyrocketed and the CFO is on his case about reducing your AWS bill. The […]
Ever since Amazon Web Services launched Spot instances in 2009, it has been gaining traction among startups wanting to save money running their workloads in the cloud. In recent years, we are seeing increased adoption among enterprise customers wanting to take advantage of the cost savings offered by Spot instances. While enterprises see Spot instances […]
Introduction As a leading purveyor of excess hyperscaler capacity, Spotinst has years of experience in algorithmically maintaining cost-oriented clusters for production workloads. In December 2018, it launched Ocean, a serverless container engine to help customers get started with Kubernetes, using sensible defaults and enabling ‘nodeless’ operation with autoscaling at the pod level. The company’s pay-as-you-save […]