6 days ago - With Spot Instances, you pay the Spot price that's in effect for the time period your instances are running. Spot Instance prices are set by Amazon EC2 and adjust gradually based on long-term trends in supply and demand for Spot Instance capacity. To learn more about pricing, visit the Spot ...

Spot Instance prices are set by Amazon EC2 and adjust gradually based on long-term trends in supply and demand for Spot Instance capacity.

6 days ago - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances let you take advantage of unused EC2 capacity in the AWS cloud and are available at up to a 90% discount compared to On-Demand prices.

September 11, 2025 - You simply pay the current Spot price, which changes as AWS’s available capacity fluctuates. Per-Instance-Type, Per-Zone: Each instance type (e.g., m6g.large, c5.xlarge) in each Availability Zone (us-east-1a, us-east-1b, etc.) has its own independent Spot price, updated as supply and demand change.

You win an item on eBay, and you pay the second-highest bid that lost. You don’t even have to set a bid. AWS will default the price to the on-demand price in that case. Awesome for you right? With spot instances, AWS can terminate or stop your instance at any time.

Learn how to lower your Amazon EC2 costs using Spot Instances.

6 days ago - Track historical spot instance pricing patterns and optimize your AWS costs. Analyze price trends and volatility across all EC2 instance types and regions.

6 days ago - AWS Free Tier includes 750 hours of Linux and Windows t2.micro instances each month for one year. To stay within the Free Tier, use only EC2 Micro instances. ... Amazon EC2 Spot Instances allow customers to save up to 90% compared to On-Demand pricing by leveraging spare EC2 capacity.

You can optionally specify a maximum price for your Spot Instance. If you don't specify a maximum price, the maximum price defaults to the On-Demand price. Note that you never pay more than the Spot price that is in effect when your Spot Instance is running. We recommend that you do not specify a maximum price, but rather let the maximum price default to the On-Demand price.

June 30, 2025 - An AWS EC2 Spot Instance is an unused EC2 instance which is available for less than the On-Demand price. Spot instances are up to 90% cheaper than On-Demand instances, which can significantly reduce your EC2 costs. A Spot Price is the hourly ...

December 13, 2022 - You can find spot instance pricing on AWS’s spot instance pricing page as well as on the spot instance advisor page. This will help you determine the savings you can achieve in comparison to EC2 pricing on demand. Regarding the selection of your spot instance price, there is no real benefit to bidding higher than the default, on-demand price.

August 30, 2022 - The new model gives AWS Customers predictable prices that adjust slowly over days and weeks, as Spot Instance prices are now determined based on long-term trends in supply and demand for Spot Instance capacity. The current Spot Instance prices can be viewed on AWS website, and the Spot Instance pricing history can be viewed on the Amazon EC2 console or accessed via AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

April 25, 2025 - AWS comes second with a 21% rise. GCP bucked the trend with a nearly 26% decrease in spot VM prices. Let’s dive deeper into each cloud to check where these hikes come from and consider ways to mitigate their impact on your spend.

May 13, 2023 - The hourly rate for a spot instance is known as a Spot price. Amazon determines the spot price of every instance type in every availability zone, gradually adjusting it according to long-term supply and demand.

June 17, 2025 - AWS Spot Instance pricing depends on the kind of Spot Instance and unique usage requirements. For an On-Demand model, discounts go up to 89 percent off. Reserved Instances, on the other hand, have discounts rooted in a commitment.

It’s a pure example of supply ... basically EC2’s surplus stock being offered at a much lower price (up to 90% lower compared to On Demand pricing) than usual....

February 22, 2023 - A key attraction of AWS Spot Instances is the ability to rely on low, predictable prices. Spot Instances are available at prices up to 90% lower than On-Demand instances.

6 days ago - We also provide recommendations around pricing models (up to 72% with Reserved Instances and Savings Plans and up to 90% with Spot Instances) based on your utilization patterns, so you can further drive down your cost without compromising workload performance.

October 16, 2025 - AWS spot pricing is a dynamic pricing scheme for Amazon EC2 or Elastic Compute Cloud computing instances. The AWS spot pricing scheme gives a significant saving which is up to 90% compared to on-demand pricing.

Use AWS Spot Instances to request spare computing capacity for up to 90% off the On-Demand price. Spot pricing is available for Azure and AWS. GCP has preemptible which is the same process except there is no bid price.