ec2spot.com

public serverless API to query AWS EC2 spot prices

Endpoint

(100% serverless with CloudFront, Route53, API Gateway and Lambda)

Usage

query current spot price of c4.large in us-west-2

$ curl  -s https://ec2spot.com/current-spot-price/us-west-2/Linux/c4.large | json_pp

response:

{
   "data" : {
      "NextToken" : "",
      "SpotPriceHistory" : [
         {
            "InstanceType" : "c4.large",
            "ProductDescription" : "Linux/UNIX",
            "Timestamp" : "2016-08-14T11:35:47.000Z",
            "SpotPrice" : "0.031500",
            "AvailabilityZone" : "us-west-2a"
         },
         {
            "SpotPrice" : "0.030200",
            "AvailabilityZone" : "us-west-2b",
            "ProductDescription" : "Linux/UNIX",
            "Timestamp" : "2016-08-14T11:33:02.000Z",
            "InstanceType" : "c4.large"
         },
         {
            "InstanceType" : "c4.large",
            "AvailabilityZone" : "us-west-2c",
            "SpotPrice" : "0.019300",
            "ProductDescription" : "Linux/UNIX",
            "Timestamp" : "2016-08-14T11:32:10.000Z"
         }
      ]
   }
}

return the AZ of lowest price of c4.large in eu-central-1

just add ?return_lowest_az=1 as the argument

$ curl  -s https://ec2spot.com/current-spot-price/eu-central-1/Linux/c4.large?return_lowest_az=1| json_pp

response:

{
   "data" : "eu-central-1b"
}

query current spot price of MULTIPLE instance types in us-west-2

$ curl  -s https://ec2spot.com/current-spot-price/us-west-2/Linux/c4.large,c4.xlarge,m4.large | json_pp

seperate instance types with comma

return the AZ of lowest price within all provided instance types

just add ?return_lowest_az=1 as the argument

$ curl  -s https://ec2spot.com/current-spot-price/us-west-2/Linux/c4.large,c4.xlarge,m4.large?return_lowest_az=1 | json_pp
{
   "data" : {
      "ProductDescription" : "Linux/UNIX",
      "InstanceType" : "c4.large",
      "Timestamp" : "2016-08-16T15:30:04.000Z",
      "AvailabilityZone" : "us-west-2c",
      "SpotPrice" : "0.021800"
   }
}

Response Cache

Please note the service comes with CloudFront with 30s TTL cache expiration time. Some requests may take longer time than usual when cache expires.

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