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Why Enterprise Cloud Contracts Now Include Spot Instance Guarantees
Episode 41 digs into a new clause appearing in enterprise cloud contracts: spot instance guarantees. Lucas and Luna explain how AWS, Azure, and GCP are now offering limited price protection on spot compute — effectively capping how often prices can spike or instances can be reclaimed. The episode walks through the numbers: a typical enterprise might see spot prices fluctuate by 300% month-over-month, making capacity planning nearly impossible. New contract language locks in a maximum reclamation rate (e.g., no more than 5% of instances reclaimed per week) and a price ceiling (e.g., never more…
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