EKS Cost Optimization with EC2 Spot and A1 Instances
summary
Explains concrete numbers and tools: EC2 Spot delivers up to 90% spot savings while A1 Graviton instances report A1 up to 45% savings versus M5, and AWS observes 95% of spot instances not interrupted over 3 months. Shows how to build and push multi‑arch images with Docker Buildx, deploy them with CloudFormation to a t3 (x86) and an A1 (arm64) instance behind an ALB, and demonstrates the load balancer returning responses from both architectures as expected.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker
- 1:27EC2 purchase models overview
- 8:49Spot instances for Kubernetes
- 16:42AWS A1 instances with ARM
- 19:56Demo setup explanation
- 20:17Multi-arch container build demo
- 26:38CloudFormation deployment demo
- 29:58Demo results and summary
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