nOps Compute Copilot, the premier solution for optimizing AWS Auto Scaling Groups (ASGs) through smart Spot instance utilization, is pleased to announce enhanced Spot controls

By perpetually monitoring the Spot market and assessing your workload demands, nOps Compute Copilot dynamically reallocates workloads to the most stable and diverse instance types. This significantly reduces involuntary disruptions, making it orders of magnitude easier and more reliable to save with cost-effective Spot instances.

Today, we’re releasing some new features that help you fine-tune your Spot preferences. And there’s no need to dig into your ASG to perform any tedious configurations — Copilot unlocks all the options in a simple and easy UI.

Simplified Spot Controls and Preferences

Copilot looks at your dynamic usage and organization-wide existing Reserved Instances and Savings Plan commitments to put you on exactly the right amount of Spot for maximum stability and savings. 

To accommodate your workload preferences, you can specify how each ASG leverages On-Demand and Spot Instances. For example, you can specify a certain number of On-Demand instances.

• Minimum number of On-Demand Instances (NEW): The minimum amount of the Auto Scaling group's capacity that must be fulfilled by On-Demand Instances. This base portion is launched first as your group scales.
• Spot Percent (EXISTING): Controls the percentages of On-Demand Instances and Spot Instances for your additional capacity beyond Minimum number of On-Demand Instances. 
• Max Spot Instances (EXISTING): the maximum number of Spot instances that Copilot will launch as your ASG scales. 

Simply enter your requirements through text and draggable bars, and Copilot will apply your changes without any additional effort required on your part. 

Control Scale-in Protection right from the Copilot UI

Scale-in protection can be used to protect certain instances from unwanted terminations. If scale-in protection is enabled, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling (and Compute Copilot) will not terminate any instance in the group. However, scale-in protection is often unnecessarily or inadvertently enabled, preventing Copilot from performing Spot replacements.

Now, it’s easy to ignore unwanted scale-in protection in the Copilot UI. If desired, check the box and we’ll take care of the rest. 

Fine-tune your ASG configurations with new options for granular control

More about Copilot for ASG

You can read more about Compute Copilot for ASG for more details on how nOps automatically and continually moves your ASG workloads onto the most reliable and best priced Spot instances, balancing commitments and Spot for optimal price and stability. Or, find out how to onboard your ASGs at the nOps Help site.