My name is Yurii Rochniak, and I’m a Platform Engineer @ Preply. Today I want to share our experience of running a Kubernetes cluster on AWS Spot instances, and the benefits and drawbacks of this approach. tl;dr: The “Wrapping Up” section contains some ready-to-go code snippets. The WhyWhen AWS announced that their Elastic Kubernetes Engine (EKS) was publicly available, one of the biggest question
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