Case Study: SpotAd achieves reliable, low-cost EMR clusters on EC2 Spot with Spot

Spotad Runs Complex EMR Clusters on EC2 Spot With Confidence

SpotAd, a real‑time programmatic advertising company, was facing rapidly rising EC2 costs and wanted to leverage Spot Instances for big savings. However, the complexity of their Amazon EMR clusters made Spot impractical without a dedicated management tool—something SpotAd’s developers could not feasibly build alongside their regular work. They needed a pre‑built solution from a vendor such as Spot to enable safe, reliable use of Spot capacity.

Spot delivered that capability with its Elastigroup platform, managing Spot Instances for EMR by choosing optimal Spot markets, auto‑scaling task and core nodes, and using prediction algorithms to protect minimum capacity and favor the most available markets. As a result, SpotAd was able to run complex EMR clusters on Spot with confidence, reduce cluster costs and improve ROI while removing the operational burden from their engineering teams.

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Tal Maizels

Chief Technology Officer