While it isn't bulletproof yet (restarting jobs that fail due to spot instance
reclaims, etc), Cloudman (usegalaxy.org/cloud) does currently have support for
running worker nodes as spot instances. When you go to add nodes, just click
"Use Spot Instances", and add your spot price.
For obvious
Does anyone have any experience running Galaxy using Amazon's EC2 spot
pricing? It seems like that could save a lot of money as compared to
on-demand pricing, and it appears that there are ways to mix on-demand and
spot instances within one processing cluster:
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot-and-sc