Achieving Scale and Savings with Bacalhau and AWS Spot Instances
Big Data usually means big costs, but it doesn’t have to. With Bacalhau, you can tackle your Big Data challenges while significantly reducing expenses. By leveraging a distributed compute network, Bacalhau lowers bandwidth usage, optimizes compute resources, and eliminates the need for centralized infrastructure.
But, we can still do more to keep our costs low whilst working on the big problems we have today. And we can do that with AWS Spot Instances.
A Spot Instance is a type of EC2 instance from a pool of unused EC2 capacity that AWS offers at a substantial discount. The utilization of Spot Instances enables us to spin up a great number of EC2 instance types, but for a fraction of the cost of their on-demand counterparts. This makes them great options for running as Compute nodes as part of a Bacalhau network, but they come with a caveat: A Spot Instance can be reclaimed by AWS at any time.
This presents a double-edged sword. While we can access affordable compute resources for our Bacalhau networks, we can’t guarantee their availability for a fixed duration.
