Why do AWS spot-instance prices spike above the "on demand" pricing?
- by Laykes
Amazon Pricing on Spot Instance Inconsistencies
This is something which will be best explained through screenshots of a historical chart of instance pricings.
If you look at a lot of the instance prices for spot instances, you will notice regular patterns of spikes.
See here:
As you can see, the price for this compute medium instance,…
