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Amazon EC2 Spot

  • Timebilled
  • Bytesbilled
  • Callsnot billed

In one line

The same instance-seconds as On-Demand, charged at the current Spot price. The discount is the difference.

What gets missed

Your max price never changes what you pay - you always pay the Spot price in effect. If AWS interrupts you in the first hour it is free, but if YOU terminate you pay for the seconds used.

Find it on your bill

Filter Cost Explorer or your Cost and Usage Report by these usage types. A usage type with no region prefix means us-east-1.

  • SpotUsage

Bills the same way

These services turn exactly the same meters, so what you learn here transfers.