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by mdaniel 299 days ago
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
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The spot termination warnings arrive 120 seconds before termination https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/spot-ins...