Leveraging Amazon EC2 Spot for Production and Mission - Critical Applications

The AWS spot market holds a great promise for growing businesses that reached a phase where cost reduction is crucial. We have over 2 years of experience managing mission critical workloads in the AWS Spot market for our clients.

In this meetup we will present a real life scenarios and use cases that demonstrates how to enable the use of EC2 Spot for production workloads, how to protect important data that resides on Spot Instances, maintain application availability during Spot interruption and how to enable HTTP \ TCP connection draining for Web Applications that run on Spot.

Agenda:

17:00- Gathering and Networking

17:30- Amazon EC2 Spot: Reference Architectures and Things to Consider

17:50- Case Study: Running a critical Real Time Bidding (RTB) application entirely on EC2 Spot.

18:15- Q & A