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When AWS releases a new instance generation, everyone flocks to them. For previous generations theres usually ample capacity to run as spot instances uninterrupted over long periods of time, giving your staging environment significant savings. I'd call that a hand me down.

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Except the top level comment was doubting they ever spent 100k total in the history of their staging system. That’s not going to be true for AWS even with the nosebleed seats, is it?

And are you really going to run your entire staging environment in spot instances? What happens on peak days?

I didn't mean to imply that the author couldn't have spent $100K. There are clearly situations where an expensive staging environment would be needed. I was just saying that we've been able to do our staging for a fraction of that price, and had good results.

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