One more release squeezed in 2009!
Scalr now supports Spot Instances from AWS! You can find the official documentation here: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot-instances/
Spot instances is theoretically a great way to lower your web infrastructure costs: since the hourly cost of a Spot instance will likely not go above the rate of an On Demand instance, then if you set your Spot price above that, you will always keep your instances running. You'll then be saving the difference between the current Spot price and that of a Reserved or On Demand instance. Let us know if you try this and have any success with it.
To get started, from the menu: Tools -> Amazon Web Services -> Amazon EC2 -> Spot instances.
I hope everyone has a happy new year's celebration!
Cheers,
Sebastian on behalf of all of Scalr
December 30th, 2009 - 12:08
Any ETA on when this will be released to the Open Source repository?
I have a client wishing to use spot instances and I must decide how to achieve that within the next 2 weeks. Currently I’m utilizing the latest (August 09) release of Scalr for their system. If there will be a source update within 2 weeks I’ll keep their instances under Scalr control, otherwise I’ll have to either fork and re-implement spot-instance support in the Aug09 code-base or abandon Scalr (which I don’t want to do, obviously).
December 30th, 2009 - 12:23
New o/s version will be released in the middle of January. It almost ready.
Regards,
Igor
January 8th, 2010 - 13:51
Excellent news Igor- can’t wait!