Benefits
Why Amazon EC2 Spot Instances?
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances let you take advantage of unused EC2 capacity in the AWS cloud and are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices. You can use Spot Instances for various stateless, fault-tolerant, or flexible applications such as big data, containerized workloads, CI/CD, web servers, high-performance computing (HPC), and test &
development workloads.
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Leveraging Spot Instances to build the season schedule has enabled the NFL to save over $20 million since 2014.
The Makings of an NFL Football Schedule