Archive for September 1st, 2012
Cheaping out on EC2 – using Spot Instances
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin, Uncategorized on September 1, 2012
Amazon markets Spot Instances as a way to reduce the price you pay for instances. So, continuing my efforts to reduce expenses on EC2, I looked into using spot instances. Spot instances are essentially just like normal instances. You can create your own AMIs, where you essentially create an image and tell Amazon to create […]