SkyPilot delivers significant cost optimization through a multi-tiered intelligent scheduling strategy:
- automated price comparison engine: Compare on-demand/Spot instance prices across different cloud vendors and regions in real-time and prioritize the cheapest available resources.
- Preemptive instance management: Use
--use-spotparameter, the system monitors the status of the Spot instance and automatically migrates tasks to other available resources when it encounters an outage. - Integration of set-aside resources: Support for long-term discount programs such as AWS Capacity Blocks, combined with dynamic load scheduling (e.g. GCP Dynamic Workload Scheduler).
- GPU Intelligent Allocation: Accurately match GPU models (e.g. A100/T4) to task requirements to avoid over-provisioning.
Empirical data shows that these mechanisms deliver 3-6.5x cost savings. For example, when requesting 1 A100 GPU, the framework automatically selects the lowest priced option in regions such as AWS us-east-1 ($3.06/hour) and GCP asia-southeast1 ($2.48/hour).
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