Managing self hosted CI runners at scale with EC2 spot instances

Dev Shah
Building VTS
Published in
6 min readAug 24, 2022

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A cost effective solution for running self hosted runners at scale using Github actions and AWS EC2 Spot instances

As engineering teams grow, CI usage is bound to increase in order to support more systems and engineers. Beyond a certain point, scaling up with managed hosted runners from CI providers comes at a significant cost.

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