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Amazon EC2 Spot Instances

Run fault-tolerant workloads for up to 90% off

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Benefits

Why Amazon EC2 Spot Instances?

Amazon EC2 Spot Instances let you take advantage of unused EC2 capacity in the AWS cloud and 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. 

Leveraging Spot Instances to build the season schedule has enabled the NFL to save over $20 million since 2014.

Watch Mike North, NFL VP of Broadcasting Planning, explain how the NFL schedule was built with the help of AWS.

Ready to kickoff your savings? Read about best practices to optimize your Spot Instances usage.

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