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Figure out spot instance nuances #62

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kurtwheeler opened this issue Sep 19, 2017 · 0 comments
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Figure out spot instance nuances #62

kurtwheeler opened this issue Sep 19, 2017 · 0 comments

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kurtwheeler commented Sep 19, 2017

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Spot instances cost a fraction of the normal price for AWS instances. The downside is that they can be preempted if the demand for AWS instances becomes too high. However this is not a big deal for our system because we don't need to have data processed ASAP, it's worth the delay to save money.

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We should use spot instances instead of normal AWS instances.

Solution or next step

Switch the instances used for Nomad clients to spot instances. The best way to do this will probably require a bit of research to determine, but there are some blog posts and there is also a specific section in the terraform docs about it.

The one thing that is known is that we definitely should use the auto-scaling group created in #61.

@kurtwheeler kurtwheeler added this to the Create auto-scaling group with spot instances milestone Sep 19, 2017
@kurtwheeler kurtwheeler added backlog and removed next labels Jan 24, 2018
@cgreene cgreene modified the milestones: Create auto-scaling group with spot instances, VJackieP3 - #3: Autoimmune/rheumatic disease compendium Apr 8, 2018
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