From 09a24358aedb0e3d7c33c82944122439996c626d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corey Quinn Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 06:43:34 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update Spot instances to reflect terminations (#723) There are CW events for this now. Huzzah! --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c5a04f6..476fd6c 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2395,7 +2395,7 @@ Billing and Cost Management - Prices are per instance type and per availability zone. The same instance type may have wildly different price in different zones at the same time. Different instance types can have very different prices, even for similarly powered instance types in the same zone. - Compare prices across instance types for better deals. - Use Spot instances whenever possible. Setting a high bid price will assure your machines stay up the vast majority of the time, at a fraction of the price of normal instances. - - Get notified up to two minutes before price-triggered shutdown by polling [your Spot instances’ metadata](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-spot-instance-termination-notices/). + - Get notified up to two minutes before price-triggered shutdown by polling [your Spot instances’ metadata](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ec2-spot-instance-termination-notices/), or by watching for [the termination CloudWatch event](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/01/amazon-ec2-spot-two-minute-warning-is-now-available-via-amazon-cloudwatch-events/). - Make sure your usage profile works well for Spot before investing heavily in tools to manage a particular configuration. - **Spot fleet:** - You can realize even bigger cost reductions at the same time as improvements to fleet stability relative to regular Spot usage by using [Spot fleet](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/spot-fleet.html) to bid on instances across instance types, availability zones, and (through multiple Spot Fleet Requests) regions.