Modal's spot capacity was preemptible, but aggregating capacity across hundreds of regions made the approach workable.

“Spot means you're just, like, renting it right there and then- Exactly...that's it. Yeah, and it's also preemptible, which we had to deal with.”

“Um, but, but it sort of works in aggregate 'cause you can sort of just, you know, aggregate capacity from many, you know, hundreds of regions, basically.”