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We can use python with Boto3 to retrieve the current On Demand price for a given instance type.
31/05/2022
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Running on spot instances can save us a bunch of money on the cloud. It is based on long-term trends in supply and demand. You'll pay the Spot price that's in effect for the time period your instances are running. We can use boto3 to retrieve the current spot price:
26/05/2022
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When running spot instances, if AWS needs to reclaim that capacity (or if the current Spot price exceeds our bid price) we will receive a two minutes grace period to be able to save any data we need.
To check is we need to terminate our tasks on the spot instance we can use the instance's metadata
24/05/2022
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On a running instance we might want to be able to identify whether it is a spot or on demand instance. We can use awscli to identify it
23/05/2022
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If we are using a NVMe EBS volumes, even though on the AWS Console we will see it as something like /dev/xvdait won't be visible on the Linux system using this name: We will have to look for /dev/nvme devices
07/02/2022
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