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I was going to write that this should of been caught pretty early if you had searched and click AWS Spot instances link to read about them being quite unstable/temporary. However, the first result is this: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/

It is ceaseless shilling for how great spot instances are with big percentages, big savings, omg-so-good messaging. No details whatsoever about some pretty glaring trade-offs. Even their video about getting to know it is quite light on details, mostly telling you what other of their services you can use them together with. What is the point of this marketing word soup? Does that really generate leads?

/rant over

The actual page that tells you about spot instances is a later result: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-sp...

> Spot Instance interruption – Amazon EC2 terminates, stops, or hibernates your Spot Instance when Amazon EC2 needs the capacity back. Amazon EC2 provides a Spot Instance interruption notice, which gives the instance a two-minute warning before it is interrupted.