This is a small helper for discovering the cheapest instance type in a region and within availability zones. It can be used to automate bidding on spot instances, returning the last bid for your selection.
It's a German idiom describing a price that's either knocked down or ridiculously low, "spott" meaning ridicule or mockery and price obviously translates into price.
git clone ssh://[email protected]/nilsmeyer/spottpreis
cd spottpreis
pip3 install --user . This application uses click, you can check the arguments using the --help
command line switch. Output can be formatted in json or as text, it will
return a list starting with the least expensive.
You must have an AWS client environment configured and a profile available.
Usage: spottpreis [OPTIONS]
Options:
-r, --region TEXT AWS region to use
-z, --availability-zone TEXT Availability Zones to use, use 'all' for all
zones, multiple invocations supported, default
all
-t, --instance-type TEXT Instance types to use, multiple invocations
supported, default t3.micro
--cheapest / --all
-p, --profile TEXT AWS profile to use
-f, --format [json|text] output format
--help Show this message and exit.
spottpreis --cheapest --instance-type c5.large --instance-type c5n.large \
--instance-type c5d.largespottpreis --instance-type c5.large --instance-type c5n.large \
--instance-type c5d.largespottpreis --instance-type c5.large --instance-type c5n.large \
--instance-type c5d.large --instance-type m5.large --instance-type r5.large \
--availability-zone eu-west-1c --cheapestspottpreis --availability-zone b --availability-zone c \
--instance-type c5.large --instance-type c5n.large --instance-type c5d.largeAWS and EC2 are (probably?) Trademarks of Amazon.com Inc. or it's subsidiaries. This project is NOT in any way affiliated with Amazon.