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by KaiserPro 2166 days ago
We had the same problem!

We managed to cut our costs by about 2/3rd by doing two things:

1) moving to batch (this spins up machines to run docker containers without much hassle. You can also share instances) 2) use spot instances.

Spot instances integrate nicely into batch, and depending on how you set it up, you can optimise for speed or cost. for example a p2.xlarge is still $.9 but on spot its about $0.25-0.35