Spot On! - Run EC2 Spot Instances in Production - Up to 80% cost savings

With Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, we can run and scale applications such as stateless web services, image rendering, big data analytics, CI/CD pipelines, and massively parallel computations — all at a fraction of the cost. On average, we can save 60% to 80% compared to On-Demand prices by using Spot Instances.

10:30 AM - Welcome & Networking

11:00 AM - Meetup Kick Off & Group Introduction - Nilesh, Shaishav & Gaurav

12:00 PM - Spot On! - Run EC2 Spot Instances in Production

• What are Amazon EC2 Spot Instances
• Spot vs On-Demand vs Reserved Pricing Models
• Impact of Spot pricing updates - before vs after re:Invent (2017)
• Spot Strategies
• Demo - Spot Fleet
• How Hotstar leverages Spot instances for million scale

Speaker - Gaurav Kamboj - Cloud Architect at Hotstar