AWS Compute Blog
Author: Ben Peven
Deep dive into Fargate Spot to run your ECS Tasks for up to 70% less
Author: Pritam Pal, Sr. EC2 Spot Specialist SA AWS launched AWS Fargate Spot during late 2019 for customers looking for a cost effective way to run containers. This blog dives deep into how to use ECS Fargate Spot and Fargate Tasks to lower the cost of your workloads. I explain existing concepts like Container Stop Timeout, catching […]
Cost Optimize your Jenkins CI/CD pipelines using EC2 Spot Instances
Author: Rajesh Kesaraju, Sr. Specialist Solution Architect, EC2 Spot Instances In this blog post, I go over using Amazon EC2 Spot Instances on continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) workloads, via the popular open-source automation server Jenkins. I also break down the steps required to adopt Spot Instances into your CI/CD pipelines for cost optimization purposes. In this blog, I explain […]
Running Cost-effective queue workers with Amazon SQS and Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
This post is contributed by Ran Sheinberg | Sr. Solutions Architect, EC2 Spot & Chad Schmutzer | Principal Developer Advocate, EC2 Spot | Twitter: @schmutze Introduction Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is used by customers to run decoupled workloads in the AWS Cloud as a best practice, in order to increase their applications’ resilience. You […]