When Clouds Stop Raining Discounts: Surviving the Drought
summary
Migrated major services to Graviton and initially cut costs by 45–50%, then AWS Spot discounts collapse—from roughly 60% to near 0% between March and April while interruptions spike (one study shows a 4x jump). Uses Spot iio per‑AZ metrics plus generated bash queries (iterated with gp4) to map real spot vs on‑demand prices, finds some new AMD offers at 90% off, and shifts to a mix of savings plans, convertible reservations and size/region diversification to regain control.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to Duolingo
- 0:51AWS EC2 architecture
- 3:08Purchasing and spot markets
- 5:53Migrating to Graviton
- 7:34Market volatility analysis
- 10:06Theories on price changes
- 11:26Using GPT-4 for data analysis
- 14:45Survival strategies
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