spotprice
Quickly get AWS spot instance pricing
This program is similar to using aws ec2 describe-spot-price-history but is faster and has a few more options.
The Releases Page contains binaries for Windows, MacOS, Linux and FreeBSD.
Usage
spotprice.exe Quickly get AWS spot instance pricing across multiple regions
usage: .\spotprice.exe [options]
(required EC2 IAM Permissions: DescribeRegions, DescribeAvailabilityZones, DescribeSpotPriceHistory)
-I string
A comma-separated list of regular-expressions to match Instance Type names, eg: t2.*,c5(a\.|n\.|\.)4xlarge
-az string
A comma-separated list of regular-expressions to match AZs (eg: us-*1a)
-inst string
A comma-separated list of exact Instance Type names, eg: t2.small,t3a.micro,c5.large
-l List regions & instance types, then exit
-max float
Only output if spot price is less than or equal to given amount
-prod string
A comma-separated list of exact, case-sensitive Product Names (eg: Windows,win,Linux/UNIX,lin,SUSE Linux,Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
-prof string
AWS profile to use (default "default")
-reg string
A comma-separated list of regular-expressions to match regions, eg: us-.*-2,ap-.*east-\d
-v show program version and then exit
Installation
- macOS:
brew update; brew install jftuga/tap/spotprice - Binaries for Linux, macOS and Windows are provided in the releases section.
EC2 IAM Permissions
- DescribeAvailabilityZones
- DescribeRegions
- DescribeSpotPriceHistory
Examples
Only return pricing for US and Canada regions; Windows OS, (these 4 instance types); less than or equal to $2.00; in AZs that end in either an a, b, or d (such as us-east-2b)
spotprice -reg us-,ca- -prod Windows -inst r5.8xlarge,x1.32xlarge,x1e.32xlarge,c4.8xlarge -max 2.00 -az "(a|b|d)$"
+--------------+---------------+------------+---------+------------+
| REGION | AZ | INSTANCE | DESC | SPOT PRICE |
+--------------+---------------+------------+---------+------------+
| us-east-2 | us-east-2b | c4.8xlarge | Windows | 1.789600 |
| us-east-2 | us-east-2a | c4.8xlarge | Windows | 1.789600 |
| us-east-2 | us-east-2b | r5.8xlarge | Windows | 1.806500 |
| us-east-2 | us-east-2a | r5.8xlarge | Windows | 1.806500 |
| ca-central-1 | ca-central-1d | r5.8xlarge | Windows | 1.980800 |
| ca-central-1 | ca-central-1b | r5.8xlarge | Windows | 1.980800 |
| ca-central-1 | ca-central-1a | r5.8xlarge | Windows | 1.980800 |
| us-west-2 | us-west-2b | c4.8xlarge | Windows | 1.990600 |
| us-west-2 | us-west-2a | c4.8xlarge | Windows | 1.990600 |
| us-east-1 | us-east-1d | c4.8xlarge | Windows | 1.993500 |
| us-east-1 | us-east-1b | c4.8xlarge | Windows | 1.993500 |
| us-east-1 | us-east-1a | c4.8xlarge | Windows | 1.993500 |
+--------------+---------------+------------+---------+------------+
Only return pricing for all US regions with instance types of either t2.micro or t2.small
spotprice -reg us -inst t2.micro,t2.small
+-----------+------------+----------+------------+------------+
| REGION | AZ | INSTANCE | DESC | SPOT PRICE |
+-----------+------------+----------+------------+------------+
| us-west-2 | us-west-2c | t2.micro | Linux/UNIX | 0.003500 |
| us-west-2 | us-west-2b | t2.micro | Linux/UNIX | 0.003500 |
| us-west-2 | us-west-2a | t2.micro | Linux/UNIX | 0.003500 |
| us-east-2 | us-east-2c | t2.micro | Linux/UNIX | 0.003500 |
| us-east-2 | us-east-2b | t2.micro | Linux/UNIX | 0.003500 |
| us-east-2 | us-east-2a | t2.micro | Linux/UNIX | 0.003500 |
| us-east-1 | us-east-1f | t2.micro | Linux/UNIX | 0.003500 |
| us-east-1 | us-east-1e | t2.micro | Linux/UNIX | 0.003500 |
| us-east-1 | us-east-1d | t2.micro | Linux/UNIX | 0.003500 |
| us-east-1 | us-east-1c | t2.micro | Linux/UNIX | 0.003500 |
| us-east-1 | us-east-1b | t2.micro | Linux/UNIX | 0.003500 |
| us-east-1 | us-east-1a | t2.micro | Linux/UNIX | 0.003500 |
| us-west-1 | us-west-1b | t2.micro | Linux/UNIX | 0.004100 |
| us-west-1 | us-west-1a | t2.micro | Linux/UNIX | 0.004100 |
| us-west-2 | us-west-2c | t2.small | Linux/UNIX | 0.006900 |
+-----------+------------+----------+------------+------------+