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AWS / Cloud Computing
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What is the purpose of "Spot Instances" in EC2, and what is their main trade-off?
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The correct answer is A) Spot Instances let you use spare EC2 capacity at a significant discount compared to On-Demand prices, but AWS can reclaim (interrupt) them with short notice when capacity is needed elsewhere
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Correct Answer
Spot Instances let you use spare EC2 capacity at a significant discount compared to On-Demand prices, but AWS can reclaim (interrupt) them with short notice when capacity is needed elsewhere
Explanation
Spot Instances can be up to 90% cheaper than On-Demand, making them great for fault-tolerant or flexible workloads (like batch processing), but AWS can interrupt them with a two-minute warning when capacity is reclaimed.
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