In this session, learn how to effectively harness Spot Instances for production workloads. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances allow you to use spare EC2 computing capacity, which is often 90 percent less expensive than On-Demand prices. We explore application requirements to use Spot Instances, best practices learned from thousands of customers, and the services that make it easy. Finally, we run through practical examples of how to use Spot for the most common production workloads, the common pitfalls customers run into, and how to avoid them.