{"id":28177,"date":"2017-11-06T10:30:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T08:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=28177"},"modified":"2017-11-06T10:30:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T08:30:04","slug":"persisting-state-between-aws-ec2-spot-instances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/06\/persisting-state-between-aws-ec2-spot-instances\/","title":{"rendered":"Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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“Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances<\/a>” is a handy guide into using Amazon EC2 spot instances instead of on-demand or reserved instances and preserving the state of the instance between terminations.\u00a0 This is not something that I’ve personally tried yet, but with the ever-growing number of instances I managed on the AWS, this definitely looks like an interesting approach.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

“Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances” is a handy guide into using Amazon EC2 spot instances instead of on-demand or reserved instances and preserving the state of the instance between terminations.\u00a0 This is not something that I’ve personally tried yet, but with the ever-growing number of instances I managed on the AWS, this definitely … Continue reading Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances #WebDev #SysAdmin #Amazon #AWS #EC2 #cloud #hosting #Docker","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[3270,3333,2366,3420,3104,1330,2289],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-28177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-sysadmin","tag-amazon-aws","tag-amazon-ec2","tag-cloud-computing","tag-docker","tag-virtualization","tag-web-development","tag-web-hosting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28571,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/09\/creating-a-1-3-million-vcpu-grid-on-aws-using-ec2-spot-instances-and-tibco-gridserver\/","url_meta":{"origin":28177,"position":0},"title":"Creating a 1.3 Million vCPU Grid on AWS using EC2 Spot Instances and TIBCO GridServer","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This Amazon AWS blog post provides a great insight into the benefits of the cloud computing in general and Amazon AWS in particular.\u00a0 The whole thing is well worth the read, but here are a few of my favorite bits. 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