Since founding Spot five years ago, I’ve lost track of the number of conversations I’ve had with other companies who wanted to talk about their vision of where the market is going and about working together. Most of those conversations were not particularly memorable.
Ocean by Spot is a Kubernetes data plane service that provides a serverless infrastructure engine for running containers. Ocean is designed to work in such a way that pods and workloads can take advantage of the underlying capabilities of cloud infrastructure such as compute, networking and storage across different pricing models, lifecycles, performance and availability levels, without having to know anything about it.
As an open-source, distributed, general-purpose cluster-computing framework, Apache Spark is popular for machine learning, data processing, ETL, and data streaming. While Spark manages the scheduling and processing needed for big data workloads and applications, it requires resources like vCPUs and memory to run on.
It’s 2020 and running infrastructure on the cloud has become quite standard for many companies. This is underscored by a Canalys report that shows 2019 global cloud spend at $107 billion. This spend on cloud services is spread across AWS with 32.4% of the market, Azure at 17.6%, Google Cloud at 6%, Alibaba Cloud at 5.4%, and other smaller cloud players with a combined 38.5% of market share.
Optimization and validation bring hands-free infrastructure for Kubernetes in public and hybrid clouds to Red Hat OpenShift customers 21 May, 2020 — Spot, a leading provider of software for modern CloudOps, today announced that Ocean by Spot has achieved Red Hat Operator certification for OpenShift.
On Friday, AWS announced discounted prices for Standard RIs and EC2 Instance Savings Plans for both 1 year and 3-year terms. The discount covers the most used the latest generation instance families, C5, R5, M5, T3, Z1, and A1. The discounts range from 2% up to 18% in additional savings across multiple regions and are available immediately for purchase.
Ocean by Spot continuously makes sure that all pods’ requirements are met so they can be scheduled by Kubernetes on the right nodes, with intelligent bin packing for optimized resource usage. In some use cases there are instance level dependencies, such as: To ensure that these instance level dependencies are met, we are pleased to share that Ocean launch specifications now supports a maximum number of instances allowed to run concurrently.
Ocean by Spot delivers a serverless container experience by managing the underlying cloud infrastructure. It automates the scale up/down and management of spot instances, reserved capacity and on-demand instances (as needed) within a cluster. Ocean accomplishes this with a fundamental construct called Launch Specification.
Managing highly efficient ECS clusters requires balancing between overprovisioning, which drives costs up, and underprovisioning, which result in performance issues and pending tasks. Fortunately, Ocean by Spot provides ECS users with an automated, serverless experience. Its proprietary autoscaler leverages just the right blend of type, size, and lifecycle of container instances, for an optimally utilized cluster.
As a “one size fits all” approach for AWS reservations doesn’t typically work for most AWS customers, Eco by Spot provides intelligent reserved instances and savings plans lifecycle automation with a focus on creating and executing customized, reserved capacity portfolios. These well balanced portfolios diversify customer commitments to various reserved instances and savings plans, ensuring the best blend of reserved pricing coverage, savings and optimal term length (e.g.
