Chad Schmutzer

In this chalk talk, two engineers from the EC2 Spot team share what they see from the inside: how capacity behaves across regions, instance families, and time of day, including why Graviton-based Spot is consistently available and how seasonal patterns create predictable opportunities.

Today, organizations run ML training, inference, and large-scale simulations on Spot across CPU and GPU instance families. But scaling Spot successfully requires understanding how capacity actually behaves.

It's easier to improve what is measured — and even easier when you're tracking the relevant metrics. This chalk talk explores how to drive meaningful compute optimization across Amazon EC2 workloads using data, not guesswork.

Dive deep into advanced EC2 Fleet configurations in this technical session. We'll examine complex architectural patterns using instance weighting for optimal compute capacity distribution, implementation of hybrid capacity models combining On-Demand and Spot instances, and sophisticated capacity reservation strategies.

Many organizations deploy Amazon EC2 instances without fully leveraging available optimization opportunities. EC2 offers over 850 instance types across six categories: general purpose, compute optimized, memory optimized, storage optimized, accelerated computing, and high-performance computing.

Are you looking to improve your price performance and reduce your environmental impact? AWS Graviton-based Amazon EC2 instances are a great fit for organizations of all sizes looking to maximize price performance and improve sustainability.

AWS Graviton based instances can provide up to 40% better price performance over comparable current-generation instances for a wide variety of workloads, including application servers, microservices, high-performance computing, electronic design automation, gaming, open-source databases, and in-memory caches.

It’s easier than ever to grow your compute capacity and enable new types of cloud computing applications while maintaining the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) by blending EC2 Spot Instances, On-Demand Instances, and Savings Plans purchase models. In this session, learn how to use the power of EC2 Fleet with AWS services such as Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Amazon EMR,...

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.