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		mdaniel 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS in 2025: Stuff you think you know that's now w... To "me, too" this, it's not like that AWS spot instance just go "poof," they do actually warn you (my recollection is 60s in advance of the TerminateInstance call), and so a resiliency plane on top of the workloads (such as the cited Kubernetes) can make that a decided "non-event". Shout out to the reverse uptime crew, a subset of Chaos Engineering

cptnntsoobv 6 months ago [–]

The spot termination warnings arrive 120 seconds before termination https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/spot-ins...

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