Audience
Developers looking for a solution that offers spare compute capacity available in the AWS cloud
About EC2 Spot
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances let you take advantage of unused EC2 capacity in the AWS cloud. Spot Instances are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices. You can use Spot Instances for various stateless, fault-tolerant, or flexible applications such as big data, containerized workloads, CI/CD, web servers, high-performance computing (HPC), and test & development workloads. Because Spot Instances are tightly integrated with AWS services such as Auto Scaling, EMR, ECS, CloudFormation, Data Pipeline and AWS Batch, you can choose how to launch and maintain your applications running on Spot Instances. Moreover, you can easily combine Spot Instances with On-Demand, RIs and Savings Plans Instances to further optimize workload cost with performance. Due to the operating scale of AWS, Spot Instances can offer the scale and cost savings to run hyper-scale workloads.
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Spot Ocean
Spot Ocean lets you reap the benefits of Kubernetes without worrying about infrastructure while gaining deep cluster visibility and dramatically reducing costs.
The key question is how to use containers without the operational overhead of managing the underlying VMs while also take advantage of the cost benefits associated with Spot Instances and multi-cloud.
Spot Ocean is built to solve this problem by managing containers in a “Serverless” environment. Ocean provides an abstraction on top of virtual machines allowing to deploy Kubernetes clusters without the need to manage the underlying VMs.
Ocean takes advantage of multiple compute purchasing options like Reserved and Spot instance pricing and failover to On-Demand instances whenever necessary, providing 80% reduction in infrastructure costs. Spot Ocean is a Serverless Compute Engine that abstracts the provisioning (launching), auto-scaling, and management of worker nodes in Kubernetes clusters.
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Xosphere
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Pricing
Starting Price:
$0.01 per user, one-time payment,
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Company Information
Amazon
Founded: 1994
United States
aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/
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Big Data
Data Blends
Supported
Data Cleansing
Supported
Data Mining
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Data Warehousing
Supported
High Volume Processing
Supported
Predictive Analytics
Supported
Collaboration
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Data Visualization
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No-Code Sandbox
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Templates
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Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
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Continuous Deployment
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Build Log
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Change Management
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Configuration Management
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Debugging
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Permission Management
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Quality Assurance Management
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Testing Management
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