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Just curious, what kind of work flow do you have to run to accept that your host can stop anytime?


Anything that you can easily checkpoint/finish quickly, while needing a ton of computers to do, map-reduce type jobs.

For example, let's say you need to process a few million images, each taking a few seconds to process. You can start a manager task that distributes images, and a pool of interruptible workers, when a worker dies you just reissue the images to another.


And lots of spot instance types can be automatically hibernated.


Literally anything stateless.




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