Co-founder and CEO of Terrace Networks and incoming Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech. My research focuses on measuring and securing modern Internet service deployments, particularly in the context of cloud computing.
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AWS EC2 Spot prices have surged since the start of 2023. In this article I investigate this trend, possible causes, and how AWS customers can improve their deployments to get the maximum discount possible.
AWS creates a market for spot instance pricing, but this market is inefficient as customers don’t consider all instance types available. Leveraging this mispricing can save even more than spot pricing already does.