Posted On: Oct 15, 2024
Starting today, you can launch Amazon EC2 Spot Instances using Ubuntu Pro based Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. You can now easily deploy Ubuntu Pro Spot instances and get five additional years of security updates from Canonical. You will be charged on a per-second basis for Ubuntu Pro EC2 AMI instances. For any new Ubuntu Pro EC2 AMI deployments, you will now see Ubuntu Pro charges in the Elastic Compute Cloud section of your bill.
Amazon EC2 Spot Instances let you take advantage of unused EC2 capacity available in the Amazon Web Services cloud. Spot Instances are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices. You can use Spot Instances for various stateless, fault-tolerant, or flexible applications such as big data, containerized workloads, CI/CD, web servers, high-performance computing (HPC), and other test & development workloads. Spot Instances are easy to launch, scale, and manage through Amazon Web Services services like Amazon ECS and Amazon EMR, or integrated third parties like Terraform and Jenkins.
Spot Instances can be launched via RunInstances API with a single additional parameter. You can also provision compute capacity across Spot Instances, RIs and On-Demand instances to optimize performance and cost using EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet APIs. To learn more about Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, visit Amazon EC2 Spot page or technical documentation.