2 years ago

Developers and engineers must rethink how they manage workloads and put pressure on https://thenewstack.io/category/cloud-services/ to improve service level agreements (SLAs) on spot instances if the tech industry has any chance of meeting sustainability targets, according to a speaker at https://www.seacom.online/seacon2022 in London. “I don’t care what your company is serving in their canteen, and I don’t care whether you’re about to eat a ham sandwich,” she said.

But, she continued, “If we push the hyper cloud providers to do more, that’s probably the best lever that we can use.”

What developers and engineers can do, Currie said, is initially engage in a thought experiment: Think about moving 90% of their CPU load to spot instances.

This would put pressure on the cloud providers to rethink the SLAs around spot instances, to make them viable for more enterprise workloads, Currie predicted.