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Run your GitHub Actions jobs 10x cheaper on your own AWS account.

Secure, ephemeral, high-performance, low-cost runners within the privacy of your own VPC.

https://sprinters.sh

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Sprinters @sprinters.bsky.social · Jan 9

Welcome to Sprinters!

Run your GitHub Actions jobs
10x cheaper
on your own AWS account.

Secure, ephemeral, high-performance, low-cost runners within the privacy of your own VPC.

Get started in under 5 minutes:
sprinters.sh

Sprinters

@sprinters.bsky.social

Need lots of temp storage? gp3 temp storage can now be up to 65536 GiB in size, with up to 80000 IOPS and 2000 MiB/s throughput!

sprinters.sh/docs/temp#gp3

September 30, 2025 at 8:49 PM

Sprinters

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You can now use c5d, c5ad, c6gd, c6id, c7gd, c8gd, m5d, m5ad, m6gd, m6id, m7gd, m8gd, r5d, r5ad, r6gd, r6id, r7gd, and r8gd instances and make full use of their ephemeral instance store for temp storage at much higher performance and zero EBS costs!

sprinters.sh/docs/temp#ep...

September 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM

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Temp storage just got a whole lot faster! You can now store your temp files on blazing fast zstd-compressed RAM disk for maximum I/O performance with zero EBS costs.

sprinters.sh/docs/temp#zram

September 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM

Sprinters

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The newest generation of Intel Xeon-based general-purpose instances has arrived! Sprinters now supports m8i and m8i-flex instances with up to 384 vCPUs!

sprinters.sh/docs/instanc...

September 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM

Sprinters

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AWS accounts are regularly used to fence off different environments or projects within the same AWS organization. Sprinters now lets you run your jobs on any number of AWS accounts, exactly where you need them.

sprinters.sh/docs/aws-acc...

August 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM

Sprinters

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Need lots of memory for your runners? Sprinters now supports r8i and r8i-flex instances with up to 384 vCPUs and 3072 GiB of RAM!

sprinters.sh/docs/label#i...

August 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM

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@sprinters.bsky.social

New: Runner job pinning support

You can now pin jobs to their respective runners, by appending a discriminator to the job label. This ensures the runner isn't "stolen" by another job.

sprinters.sh/docs/label#d...

August 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM

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New: AWS ca-central-1 and me-central-1 region support

With ca-central-1 and me-central-1, Sprinters now supports AWS regions in Canada and the Middle East.

sprinters.sh/docs/label#p...

July 30, 2025 at 8:36 AM

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@sprinters.bsky.social

New: AWS ap-south-1 region support

This is AWS' most cost-effective region, by far, for x64 AMD and arm64 instances, with certain instance types costing less than half of what they cost in other regions.

sprinters.sh/docs/label#p...

June 5, 2025 at 8:04 AM

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@sprinters.bsky.social

New: AWS r5, r5a, r6a, r6i and r7a instance support
sprinters.sh/docs/label#i...

May 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM

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New: AWS eu-west-2 region support
sprinters.sh/docs/label#p...

May 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM

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New: Faster-booting -slim and -minimal images with lower EBS costs
sprinters.sh/docs/images

May 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM

Sprinters

@sprinters.bsky.social

New: AWS c5, c5a, c6a, c6i and c7a instance support
sprinters.sh/docs/label#i...

May 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM

Sprinters

@sprinters.bsky.social

New: Not sure how large your temp volume should be? You can now see its actual usage at the end of every job run, allowing you to right-size it and lower your EBS costs with confidence.
sprinters.sh/docs/volumes...