[ aws . ec2 ]

describe-spot-price-history

Description

Describes the Spot price history. For more information, see Spot Instance pricing history in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances .

When you specify a start and end time, the operation returns the prices of the instance types within that time range. It also returns the last price change before the start time, which is the effective price as of the start time.

See also: AWS API Documentation

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

describe-spot-price-history is a paginated operation. Multiple API calls may be issued in order to retrieve the entire data set of results. You can disable pagination by providing the --no-paginate argument. When using --output text and the --query argument on a paginated response, the --query argument must extract data from the results of the following query expressions: SpotPriceHistory

Synopsis

  describe-spot-price-history
[--filters <value>]
[--availability-zone <value>]
[--dry-run | --no-dry-run]
[--end-time <value>]
[--instance-types <value>]
[--product-descriptions <value>]
[--start-time <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--starting-token <value>]
[--page-size <value>]
[--max-items <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options

--filters (list)

One or more filters.

  • availability-zone - The Availability Zone for which prices should be returned.

  • instance-type - The type of instance (for example, m3.medium ).

  • product-description - The product description for the Spot price (Linux/UNIX | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | SUSE Linux | Windows | Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC) | Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Amazon VPC) | SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC) | Windows (Amazon VPC) ).

  • spot-price - The Spot price. The value must match exactly (or use wildcards; greater than or less than comparison is not supported).

  • timestamp - The time stamp of the Spot price history, in UTC format (for example, YYYY -MM -DD T*HH* :MM :SS Z). You can use wildcards (* and ?). Greater than or less than comparison is not supported.

(structure)

A filter name and value pair that is used to return a more specific list of results from a describe operation. Filters can be used to match a set of resources by specific criteria, such as tags, attributes, or IDs.

If you specify multiple filters, the filters are joined with an AND , and the request returns only results that match all of the specified filters.

Name -> (string)

The name of the filter. Filter names are case-sensitive.

Values -> (list)

The filter values. Filter values are case-sensitive. If you specify multiple values for a filter, the values are joined with an OR , and the request returns all results that match any of the specified values.

(string)

Shorthand Syntax:

Name=string,Values=string,string ...

JSON Syntax:

[
  {
    "Name": "string",
    "Values": ["string", ...]
  }
  ...
]

--availability-zone (string)

Filters the results by the specified Availability Zone.

--dry-run | --no-dry-run (boolean)

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation . Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation .

--end-time (timestamp)

The date and time, up to the current date, from which to stop retrieving the price history data, in UTC format (for example, YYYY -MM -DD T*HH* :MM :SS Z).

--instance-types (list)

Filters the results by the specified instance types.

(string)

Syntax:

"string" "string" ...

Where valid values are:
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  m6g.16xlarge
  m6gd.metal
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  m6gd.8xlarge
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  m6i.4xlarge
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  m6i.metal
  mac1.metal
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  p3.16xlarge
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  r5.12xlarge
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  r5.24xlarge
  r5.metal
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  r5a.2xlarge
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  r5a.8xlarge
  r5a.12xlarge
  r5a.16xlarge
  r5a.24xlarge
  r5ad.large
  r5ad.xlarge
  r5ad.2xlarge
  r5ad.4xlarge
  r5ad.8xlarge
  r5ad.12xlarge
  r5ad.16xlarge
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  r5b.large
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  r5b.2xlarge
  r5b.4xlarge
  r5b.8xlarge
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  r5b.16xlarge
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  r5b.metal
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  r5d.12xlarge
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  r5d.24xlarge
  r5d.metal
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  r5dn.metal
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  r6g.metal
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  r6gd.12xlarge
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  r6gd.metal
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  t3a.medium
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  t4g.small
  t4g.medium
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  t4g.xlarge
  t4g.2xlarge
  u-6tb1.56xlarge
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  u-9tb1.112xlarge
  u-12tb1.112xlarge
  u-6tb1.metal
  u-9tb1.metal
  u-12tb1.metal
  u-18tb1.metal
  u-24tb1.metal
  vt1.3xlarge
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  x1.16xlarge
  x1.32xlarge
  x1e.xlarge
  x1e.2xlarge
  x1e.4xlarge
  x1e.8xlarge
  x1e.16xlarge
  x1e.32xlarge
  x2iezn.2xlarge
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  x2iezn.12xlarge
  x2iezn.metal
  x2gd.medium
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  x2gd.2xlarge
  x2gd.4xlarge
  x2gd.8xlarge
  x2gd.12xlarge
  x2gd.16xlarge
  x2gd.metal
  z1d.large
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  z1d.2xlarge
  z1d.3xlarge
  z1d.6xlarge
  z1d.12xlarge
  z1d.metal
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  x2idn.24xlarge
  x2idn.32xlarge
  x2iedn.xlarge
  x2iedn.2xlarge
  x2iedn.4xlarge
  x2iedn.8xlarge
  x2iedn.16xlarge
  x2iedn.24xlarge
  x2iedn.32xlarge
  c6a.large
  c6a.xlarge
  c6a.2xlarge
  c6a.4xlarge
  c6a.8xlarge
  c6a.12xlarge
  c6a.16xlarge
  c6a.24xlarge
  c6a.32xlarge
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  c6a.metal
  m6a.metal
  i4i.large
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  i4i.2xlarge
  i4i.4xlarge
  i4i.8xlarge
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  i4i.32xlarge
  i4i.metal
  x2idn.metal
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  c7g.medium
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  c7g.8xlarge
  c7g.12xlarge
  c7g.16xlarge
  mac2.metal

--product-descriptions (list)

Filters the results by the specified basic product descriptions.

(string)

Syntax:

"string" "string" ...

--start-time (timestamp)

The date and time, up to the past 90 days, from which to start retrieving the price history data, in UTC format (for example, YYYY -MM -DD T*HH* :MM :SS Z).

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--starting-token (string)

A token to specify where to start paginating. This is the NextToken from a previously truncated response.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--page-size (integer)

The size of each page to get in the AWS service call. This does not affect the number of items returned in the command’s output. Setting a smaller page size results in more calls to the AWS service, retrieving fewer items in each call. This can help prevent the AWS service calls from timing out.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--max-items (integer)

The total number of items to return in the command’s output. If the total number of items available is more than the value specified, a NextToken is provided in the command’s output. To resume pagination, provide the NextToken value in the starting-token argument of a subsequent command. Do not use the NextToken response element directly outside of the AWS CLI.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

To describe Spot price history

This example command returns the Spot Price history for m1.xlarge instances for a particular day in January.

Command:

aws ec2 describe-spot-price-history --instance-types m1.xlarge --start-time 2014-01-06T07:08:09 --end-time 2014-01-06T08:09:10

Output:

{
  "SpotPriceHistory": [
          {
              "Timestamp": "2014-01-06T07:10:55.000Z",
              "ProductDescription": "SUSE Linux",
              "InstanceType": "m1.xlarge",
              "SpotPrice": "0.087000",
              "AvailabilityZone": "us-west-1b"
          },
          {
              "Timestamp": "2014-01-06T07:10:55.000Z",
              "ProductDescription": "SUSE Linux",
              "InstanceType": "m1.xlarge",
              "SpotPrice": "0.087000",
              "AvailabilityZone": "us-west-1c"
          },
          {
              "Timestamp": "2014-01-06T05:42:36.000Z",
              "ProductDescription": "SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC)",
              "InstanceType": "m1.xlarge",
              "SpotPrice": "0.087000",
              "AvailabilityZone": "us-west-1a"
      },
      ...
}

To describe Spot price history for Linux/UNIX Amazon VPC

This example command returns the Spot Price history for m1.xlarge, Linux/UNIX Amazon VPC instances for a particular day in January.

Command:

aws ec2 describe-spot-price-history --instance-types m1.xlarge --product-description "Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC)" --start-time 2014-01-06T07:08:09 --end-time 2014-01-06T08:09:10

Output:

{
  "SpotPriceHistory": [
      {
          "Timestamp": "2014-01-06T04:32:53.000Z",
          "ProductDescription": "Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC)",
          "InstanceType": "m1.xlarge",
          "SpotPrice": "0.080000",
          "AvailabilityZone": "us-west-1a"
      },
      {
          "Timestamp": "2014-01-05T11:28:26.000Z",
          "ProductDescription": "Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC)",
          "InstanceType": "m1.xlarge",
          "SpotPrice": "0.080000",
          "AvailabilityZone": "us-west-1c"
      }
  ]
}

Output

NextToken -> (string)

The token required to retrieve the next set of results. This value is null or an empty string when there are no more results to return.

SpotPriceHistory -> (list)

The historical Spot prices.

(structure)

The maximum price per unit hour that you are willing to pay for a Spot Instance. We do not recommend using this parameter because it can lead to increased interruptions. If you do not specify this parameter, you will pay the current Spot price.

Warning

If you specify a maximum price, your instances will be interrupted more frequently than if you do not specify this parameter.

AvailabilityZone -> (string)

The Availability Zone.

InstanceType -> (string)

The instance type.

ProductDescription -> (string)

A general description of the AMI.

SpotPrice -> (string)

The maximum price per unit hour that you are willing to pay for a Spot Instance. We do not recommend using this parameter because it can lead to increased interruptions. If you do not specify this parameter, you will pay the current Spot price.

Warning

If you specify a maximum price, your instances will be interrupted more frequently than if you do not specify this parameter.

Timestamp -> (timestamp)

The date and time the request was created, in UTC format (for example, YYYY -MM -DD T*HH* :MM :SS Z).