find ways to save aws costs

[wrashid]

-> sport instances an option?
-> how to track better, e.g. add tags explicitly to runs?
-> look at current expenses

[wrashid]

• add user and project tag. are the searchable in aws cost management?
• get spot instance running
• collect data for instance type we use, e.g. how often stopped
• can we stop on iteration and continue from it?

[zneedell]

A thought--would it be a big lift to upload and use a default set of mostly relaxed link travel times for SFBay and do a [luke]warm start from those as a default? We waste so many iterations starting from free flow travel times when we have a better prior available of what we expect congestion to look like.