Containers

Ahmed Nada

Author: Ahmed Nada

Ahmed is a Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect for EC2 Spot at AWS. He helps customers optimize their compute costs by using EC2 Spot Instances, AWS Graviton and EC2 launch services. Ahmed tweets at @AhmedNadaz

Figure 1. Capacity provider strategy controls tasks placement

Optimize cost for container workloads with ECS capacity providers and EC2 Spot Instances

Amazon EC2 Spot Instances use spare Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud  (Amazon EC2) capacity at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices. Amazon EC2 can interrupt Spot Instances with a two-minute notification when EC2 needs the capacity back. Spot Instances are an ideal option for applications that are stateless, fault-tolerant, scalable, and flexible, such as big data, […]