+1 In my previous stint, I had worked with Spot (https://spot.io/) as one of our vendors. Absolutely great product, amazing customer support and ability to take feature requests, or otherwise address our pain points quickly and effectively. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
FWIW, I am also a big spot.io fan for our workload. During the holidays I run 30-50% spot instances and run 100% spot most of the year. Source: over 1 year ago
Also, you definitely should look into Reservations, and (sale pitch coming) Spot can help you manage those. Source: over 1 year ago
All of this is on spot-instances. We used spot.io (I believe the product is called "Ocean") and they basically took care of all the backend logic to make spot-instances available for the ECS cluster. Source: over 2 years ago
Does cloud provider matter? I would say/think so. Not just cloud provider, but further more, how you set it up, which begets cloud provider. Are you setting it up with only the aws cli? Or did you terraform it? Maybe you chose a particular terraform module or maybe you used eksctl. Maybe you used kops or kubeadm. All these things matter when you get to cluster autoscaling, tainting particular node types to... Source: almost 3 years ago
Fairly beefy setup on the compute/gpu side, but I am a light gamer. My costs should run less than $100 per month based on my use. I setup an account with spot.io and it looks like I might be able to get that cost down a little more. Added benefit of having AWS APIs/SDKs I can call for more automation, use as a virtual desktop if needed, VPN etc. Source: about 3 years ago
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