aws-spot-price

Lists current global AWS EC2 Spot Instance prices.

Supports CLI and module usage.

CLI

Example

Installation

npm

npm i aws-spot-price

yarn

yarn add aws-spot-price

run with npx

npx aws-spot-price

run with yarn dlx

yarn dlx aws-spot-price

Usage

aws-spot-run [options]

If no options are applied, it will fetch all recent pricing data from default regions and show top 30 cheapest instances.

Credentials

This CLI utility uses AWS-SDK and requires AWS Access & Secret keys. If environment variables pair AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID & AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY or ~/.aws/credentials is available it will use it. Otherwise, you will need to supply credentials through CLI options --accessKeyId and --secretAccessKey.

Permissions Required

• ec2:DescribeSpotPriceHistory
• ec2:DescribeInstanceTypes

Options

--ui

Start with UI mode.

--region | -r

AWS region to fetch data from. Accepts multiple string values. Defaults to all available AWS region which does not require opt-in.

example -r us-east-1 us-east-2

--family

EC2 instance families to filter. Will be translated to --familyType and --size values. Accepts multiple string values. Choose from: general, compute, memory, storage, acceleratedComputing

example -f general compute

--instanceType | -i

Type of EC2 instance to filter. Accepts multiple string values. Enter valid EC2 instance type name.

example -i t3.nano t3a.nano

--familyType | -f

EC2 Family type (c4, c5, etc..). Accepts multiple string values.

example -f c4 c5

--size | -s

EC2 size (large, xlarge, etc..). Accepts multiple string values.

example -s large xlarge

--minVCPU | --mc

Minimum vCPU count

Default: 1

--minMemoryGiB | --mm

Minimum memory size in GiB

Default: 0.5

--priceLimit | --pl

Maximum price limit.

Default: 100

--platforms | -p

Instance platforms types to filter. Accepts multiple string values. You can use linux or windows (all in lowercase) as wildcard.

Default: "Linux/UNIX" "Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC)"

example -p windows "Red Hat Enterprise Linux"

--architectures | -a

Instance architecture types to filter. Accepts multiple string values.

Default: "arm64","arm64_mac","i386","x86_64","x86_64_mac"

example -a arm64 x86_64

--limit | -l

Limits list of price information items to be returned.

Default: 30

--reduceAZ | --raz

Reduce results with cheapest Availability Zone within Region

Default: true

--wide | -w

Output results with detail (vCPU, memory, etc)

Default: false

--json | -j

Outputs in JSON format. This option will silence any progress output.

--accessKeyId

Specific AWS Access Key ID. Requires --secretAccessKey option to be used together.

--secretAccessKey

Specific AWS Secret Access Key. Requires --accessKeyId option to be used together.

Module

Installation

npm

npm i aws-spot-price

yarn

yarn add aws-spot-price

Example

Code

import { getGlobalSpotPrices } from 'aws-spot-price';

(async () => {
  const results = await getGlobalSpotPrices({
    regions: ['us-east-1', 'us-east-2', 'us-west-1', 'us-west-2'],
    familyTypes: ['c5', 'c5a', 'c5ad', 'c5d', 'c5n', 'c6g', 'c6gd'],
    minMemoryGiB: 4,
    minVCPU: 2,
    limit: 5,
    reduceAZ: true,
    architectures: ['arm64', 'x86_64']
  });
  console.log(JSON.stringify(results, null, 2));
})();

Results

[
  {
    "availabilityZone": "us-east-2c",
    "instanceType": "t4g.medium",
    "platform": "Linux/UNIX",
    "architectures": [
      "arm64"
    ],
    "spotPrice": 0.0083,
    "timestamp": "2024-05-16T10:31:10.000Z",
    "vCpu": 2,
    "memoryGiB": 4
  },
  {
    "availabilityZone": "us-west-2a",
    "instanceType": "c7a.large",
    "platform": "Linux/UNIX",
    "architectures": [
      "x86_64"
    ],
    "spotPrice": 0.0103,
    "timestamp": "2024-05-15T16:09:23.000Z",
    "vCpu": 2,
    "memoryGiB": 4
  },
  {
    "availabilityZone": "us-west-1b",
    "instanceType": "c7i-flex.large",
    "platform": "Linux/UNIX",
    "architectures": [
      "x86_64"
    ],
    "spotPrice": 0.0108,
    "timestamp": "2024-05-16T04:16:55.000Z",
    "vCpu": 2,
    "memoryGiB": 4
  },
  {
    "availabilityZone": "us-west-2d",
    "instanceType": "m7a.large",
    "platform": "Linux/UNIX",
    "architectures": [
      "x86_64"
    ],
    "spotPrice": 0.0117,
    "timestamp": "2024-05-16T00:47:33.000Z",
    "vCpu": 2,
    "memoryGiB": 8
  },
  {
    "availabilityZone": "us-west-2b",
    "instanceType": "t3a.medium",
    "platform": "Linux/UNIX",
    "architectures": [
      "x86_64"
    ],
    "spotPrice": 0.0129,
    "timestamp": "2024-05-16T09:02:05.000Z",
    "vCpu": 2,
    "memoryGiB": 4
  }
]