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0 pointsmjlee4y ago0 comments

I'm afraid this isn't completely true. You can still be interrupted for capacity issues no matter what your bid is. It's quite rare on more common instance types, but becomes a problem if you have more than a few GPU or high memory type instances.

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Aeolun4y ago

I don’t think I’ve ever had my instances taken out from under me when I set the max price to the same amount as a normal instance.

That said, when we exceed capacity we cannot boot any more instances, that’s definitely true.

sharms4y ago

I thought this was true, but I have had spot instances go away even when going above reserved instance pricing.

reilly30004y ago

Just don’t plan on playing in Black Friday when every box on AWS is tied up by one retailer or another.

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