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Developers looking for a solution that offers spare compute capacity available in the AWS cloud
About EC2 Spot
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances let you take advantage of unused EC2 capacity in the AWS cloud. Spot Instances are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices. You can use Spot Instances for various stateless, fault-tolerant, or flexible applications such as big data, containerized workloads, CI/CD, web servers, high-performance computing (HPC), and test & development workloads. Because Spot Instances are tightly integrated with AWS services such as Auto Scaling, EMR, ECS, CloudFormation, Data Pipeline and AWS Batch, you can choose how to launch and maintain your applications running on Spot Instances. Moreover, you can easily combine Spot Instances with On-Demand, RIs and Savings Plans Instances to further optimize workload cost with performance. Due to the operating scale of AWS, Spot Instances can offer the scale and cost savings to run hyper-scale workloads.
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Save up to 90% on monthly cloud bills. Lightwing helps you go from sign up to cost optimized in under 60mins. Optimize the compute of all your production resources using AWS Spot instances or Azure Spot instances. Achieve stable and reliable high availability, while still fully benefitting from spot instance pricing. Go from sign up to fully cost-optimized in under 60mins. Use Smart Advisor to bucket your cloud resources based on usage (production or non-production) and nature (state and fault tolerance). Get an immediate estimate on exactly how much you can save on your cloud compute bills using Lightwing. Implement the required cost optimization automation and start saving on your cloud costs instantly. Helping our customers cost-optimize their cloud infrastructure is all we do, all day every day.
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Elastigroup
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Spot Ocean
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Xosphere
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Starting Price:
$0.01 per user, one-time payment,
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Amazon
Founded: 1994
United States
aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/
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