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How Cloud Regions Are Auctioning Compute to Fill Gaps
Episode 38 of The Cloud Business Podcast. Lucas and Luna explore how cloud providers are increasingly auctioning off unused compute capacity through spot and reserved instances, creating a secondary market that enterprises can exploit. They focus on AWS's spot instance market, which now handles over 2.5 million instances daily, and how savvy companies use bidding strategies to cut costs by up to 90%. The hosts discuss real-world examples: a fintech firm running GPU-intensive simulations on spot instances for 80% less, and a media company shifting batch processing to Azure's…
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