Overview, Basic Concepts and First Steps

This lesson from Kevin McGragh, VP of Architecture at Spotinst.com, explains how to leverage excess cloud capacity from providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform to optimize the costs of cloud computing using spot instances. 

Intended Audience

Everyone working with Cloud compute workloads, from start-ups to large corporations.

Prerequisites 

A basic understanding of cloud computing and cloud computing billing models. if you are new to cloud computing we recommend completing our What is Cloud Computing lesson first.

Learning Objectives

This lesson will enable you to:

• Recognize and explain how to run and manage workloads on excess cloud capacity using Spot Instances. 
• Recognize and explain the risks and benefits of the spot market.
• Recognize and implement Spot Instances to reduce cloud compute costs.