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SpotResizingSpecification - Amazon EMR

SpotResizingSpecification

The resize specification for Spot Instances in the instance fleet, which contains the resize timeout period.

Contents

AllocationStrategy

Specifies the allocation strategy to use to launch Spot instances during a resize. If you run Amazon EMR releases 6.9.0 or higher, the default is price-capacity-optimized. If you run Amazon EMR releases 6.8.0 or lower, the default is capacity-optimized.

Type: String

Valid Values: capacity-optimized | price-capacity-optimized | lowest-price | diversified | capacity-optimized-prioritized

Required: No

TimeoutDurationMinutes

Spot resize timeout in minutes. If Spot Instances are not provisioned within this time, the resize workflow will stop provisioning of Spot instances. Minimum value is 5 minutes and maximum value is 10,080 minutes (7 days). The timeout applies to all resize workflows on the Instance Fleet. The resize could be triggered by Amazon EMR Managed Scaling or by the customer (via Amazon EMR Console, Amazon EMR CLI modify-instance-fleet or Amazon EMR SDK ModifyInstanceFleet API) or by Amazon EMR due to Amazon EC2 Spot Reclamation.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0.

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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