Amazon Spot instances price dataset

This repository contains scripts to automatically capture data from AWS's spot instances via command line.

Instructions

1. Install AWS CLI
2. In scripts folder, open save_data.sh, edit the path you want to save data and then run $ chmod +x save_data.sh && ./save_data.sh
3. For plotting data, run plot_images.py. You need to have Python 3 installed and this will by default plot only Linux instances, for other instances you need to change it in the script;
4. For retrieving technical specifications for each instance, run save_instance_types.sh.

Current Data

1. You can check previously captured data in the data/ folder;
2. Folder figures/ contain visualizations for data fetched in May 29, 2021.