Show HN: AWS EC2 Pricing API – live spot pricing across regions (ec2-pricing.runs-on.com)

2 points by crohr 1y ago ↗ HN

Up-to-date API to retrieve available instance types per region and platform, as well as up to date on-demand and spot pricing across every region and availability zones. Also includes Single-Thread CPU performance and general info about instance types (vCPUs, Memory, GPUs, etc).

The database is updated every hour (about 80k data points).

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codingdave 1y ago ↗

Why not just use the API that AWS provides for this: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/API_D...?

crohr 1y ago ↗

It doesn't provide the on-demand price, nor the instance specs. Also requires authentication. With this API I can also ask for pricing across a whole family type (e.g. `c7a`).