Embracing the Volatility of AWS Spot Fleet
- 👤 Speaker: Matthew Mead-Briggs, Yelp
- 📅 Date & Time: Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:05 - 14:30
- 📍 Venue: FW26, Computer Laboratory
Abstract
In this talk, Matthew Mead-Briggs from Yelp will explain what AWS Spot Instances are and how you can slash your AWS bill by using them. He’ll include some lessons learned from using Spot Instances in production at Yelp and share some war stories from when things go wrong! There will be details on how Yelp uses spot instances to build their platform as a service (PaaSTA) and how they help us autoscale our services based on load.
Series This talk is part of the Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology series.
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Matthew Mead-Briggs, Yelp
Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:05-14:30