Ever bought a plane ticket on standby? You pay way less, but there's a catch — if the flight fills up, you might not get on. Now imagine that same idea, but for the computers that power apps, websites, and data crunching in the cloud.

That's basically what a Spot VM …

The Problem Nobody Talks About Loudly

Retrieval-Augmented Generation — RAG — has quietly become the default way to make LLMs actually useful with real-world documents. You index a PDF, embed the chunks, retrieve the relevant ones at query time, and pass them to the model. It works. People ship it.

But there's …