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Hands-on lab - launching an EC2 spot instance

Hands-on lab - launching an EC2 spot instance - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Hands-on lab - launching an EC2 spot instance

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- [Instructor] Let's learn how to launch an EC2 spot instance through this step-by-step guide. Before we start, what are spot instances in the first place? Unlike on-demand instances, spot instances allow you to purchase unused EC2 capacity at a significantly lower price. You can save up to 90% of costs compared to its on-demand counterpart. There are some factors that affect the percentage of savings, such as demand for EC2 capacity, the instance size, the region, the availability zone, and more. Now let's start. Log into your AWS Management Console. Go to the unified search bar on top and type EC2. Click EC2 on the results below. What you see here is the EC2 dashboard. On the left hand panel, you can see the other menu links that we can use, such as EC2 Global View, Events, Instances, Instance Types, and so on. For this guide, pick Spot Requests. Then we'll be redirected to the Spot Requests page. Click Request Spot Instances. On the Create Spot Fleet Request page, we can specify…

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