Spot.io VS AutoSpotting

+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 / 18 days 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: about 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

I've been heavily using ChatGPT on my autospotting.io software, where it 3-5x my productivity, releasing in 6 weeks more improvements than in the previous 6 months combined: https://github.com/LeanerCloud/AutoSpotting/discussions/489. Source: about 1 year ago

I've also been maintaining a Golang library that essentially exposes the same data structure used under the hood by ec2instances.info as a Golang data structure, which is very convenient for embedding into other tools that can do lots of things with this raw data, like I do it in my AutoSpotting project. Source: almost 3 years ago