Spot Instance pricing history
Spot Instance prices are set by Amazon EC2 and adjust gradually based on long-term trends in supply and demand for Spot Instance capacity.
When your Spot request is fulfilled, your Spot Instances launch at the current Spot price, not exceeding the On-Demand price. You can view the Spot price history for the last 90 days, filtering by instance type, operating system, and Availability Zone.
To view the current Spot prices
For the current Spot Instance prices, see Amazon EC2 Spot Instances Pricing
To view the Spot price history using the console
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Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/
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In the navigation pane, choose Spot Requests.
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Choose Pricing history.
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For Graph, choose to compare the price history by Availability Zones or by Instance Types.
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If you choose Availability Zones, then choose the Instance type, operating system (Platform), and Date range for which to view the price history.
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If you choose Instance Types, then choose up to five Instance type(s), the Availability Zone, operating system (Platform), and Date range for which to view the price history.
The following screenshot shows a price comparison for different instance types.
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Hover (move your pointer) over the graph to display the prices at specific times in the selected date range. The prices are displayed in the information blocks above the graph. The price displayed in the top row shows the price on a specific date. The price displayed in the second row shows the average price over the selected date range.
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To display the price per vCPU, toggle on Display normalized prices. To display the price for the instance type, toggle off Display normalized prices.
To view the Spot price history using the command line
You can use one of the following commands. For more information, see Access Amazon EC2.
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describe-spot-price-history (AWS CLI)
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Get-EC2SpotPriceHistory (AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell)
