aws-spot-price-history

A collection of scripts to pull the spot pricing history of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

Currently these scripts will pull the history of all available instances' spot prices and save them to a file. Every execution thereafter will grab only the updated data.

Usage

1. Grab the ec2-api-tools.zip from Amazon
2. Edit pull.sh and replace the environment variables JAVA_HOME AWS_ACCESS_KEY, and AWS_SECRET_KEY (or you can put your keys in the corresponding files: aws_access.private and aws_secret.private)
3. Run pull.sh and optionally install it in your crontab

The first run will grab all possible historic data (90 days, ~25 million entries, ~2 GB uncompressed) across all 14 regions, so it will take a while.

Data Format

Data will be stored in files named in the following format:

data.REGION.YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss±hh:mm

For example:

data.us-east-1.2017-02-21T00:14:33-08:00
data.ap-south-1.2017-03-15T15:52:17-07:00

See ec2-describe-spot-price-history for the format of the data file itself.

License

Copyright 2019-2022 Calvin Ardi

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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