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Spot capacity savings

Estimate net savings from spot or preemptible capacity after interruptions.

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How it's worked out

  • Net cost = (hours + rework hours) × spot price
  • Interruption rate and discount stable for the instance pool
NoteUse spot for stateless, fault-tolerant work with checkpoints; diversify instance types to cut interruptions.

Source: AWS, Azure and Google Cloud spot and preemptible documentation

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