Using spot instances for mission-critical workloads always carried the risk of interruptions, making their use, while financially attractive, less than ideal from a reliability perspective. Spot by NetApp has made it possible for cloud consumers to use spot instances for dramatic cost savings while ensuring high availability for all kinds of workloads. Spot Availability Scores are core to our cloud infrastructure offerings, which are leveraged to provide maximum availability while mitigating risks.

The Apache Spark and Kubernetes integration was recently officially declared Generally Available and Production Ready, generating a lot of interest from the community. More and more companies choose to run their big data workloads on Kubernetes to benefit from containerization and a standard cloud-native ecosystem.