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Apparently some just gamble that by having some instances of every time, they won't all go down:

"However, your cloud provider can pull these virtual machines out from under you at any time without notice (because someone else is willing to pay more). So how do you lower the probability of losing all of your instances to nearly zero? Cloud providers generally need to have a large buffer of capacity and they have many different virtual machine configurations with different CPU and memory sizes. So, don’t just spin up virtual machines of a single configuration type, spin up lots of them from many different configuration types!"

https://blog.comma.ai/scaling-for-10x-user-growth/

I'm not sure if they still have a fallback of traditional instances.



Yes absolutely. On AWS you can use spot instance fleets to implement this strategy https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/how-spot...




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