AWS

A general description of spot instances, it's benefits, usage and differences from on-demand instance types.

• Overview
  A general description of spot instances, it's benefits, usage and differences from on-demand instance types.
• Using on-demand as fall-back
  When using spot instances in a node pool on AWS, it can happen that the node pool cannot be scaled up as not enough spot instances are available. This guide shows you how to configure cluster-autoscaler in a way to provide on-demand instances as a back-up automatically.
• Similar EC2 instance types
  Here you find our reference regarding what is considered a similar instance type.