On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 3:54:34 PM AEDT Paul van den Bergen via luv-main wrote:
spot price means if you get out bid partway through your hour, you lose that VM and anything running on it (I think there is an option to dump to a s3 bucket or some such - but regardless)
Some time ago we had a LUV lecture about using Amazon as part of a HPC system. The idea was to take advantage of spot prices and similar deals to get a lower cost for the work done than owning systems, espectially for the case of systems that aren't busy 365 days a year. Maybe we should track down the speaker and ask if they want to reprise that talk? Ongoing changes in costs of ownership and costs of EC2 as well as changes to the types of jobs run will make some changes to the most effective ways of running such things. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/