= k8s/Spot Instances =

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=== What is spot vms ===
 * Discounted VM's that the cloud provider can reclaim in minutes.
 * This unreliability makes them only suitable for workloads that can tolerate disruption.
 * k8s(kubernetes) can use some advanced scheduling and workload mobility to make use of spot instances.

 * Example of using AWS spot and achieving high availability
   * https://medium.com/riskified-technology/run-kubernetes-on-aws-ec2-spot-instances-with-zero-downtime-f7327a95dea