Spot Instances

Spot vs On-Demand for Stateless Containers | SAA-C03

12 January 2026·821 words·4 mins

Architecture Drills AWS SAA-C03 FinOps Decision Matrix ECS EKS Spot Instances Container Orchestration

Explore how to minimize costs for stateless, interruption-tolerant containers by comparing EC2 Auto Scaling, EKS managed node groups, Spot instances, and On-Demand pricing models.

Hybrid Migration SLA vs Cost Trade-offs | SAP-C02

31 December 2025·1230 words·6 mins

Architecture Drills AWS SAP-C02 FinOps Decision Matrix EC2 Spot Instances High Availability Capacity Reservation

Migrating a mission-critical analytics platform with mixed workload profiles (SLA-bound scheduled jobs + best-effort user tasks) requires a strategic balance between On-Demand capacity reservations and Spot instance cost savings across multi-AZ deployment.

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