dataset: amazon ec2 spot price history

Spot price history for Amazon EC2 instances for various regions collected from 2014 to 2015, and 2017 to present.

See Amazon’s documentation.

data

Use tar and (xz or pixz) to decompress.

If you need the latest data, please see the code to learn how to run and collect the data yourself. The underlying Amazon code provides up to 90 days of historical spot price data.

You can also find the data on Zenodo.

DOI

2017-01-13 to present

2014-04-17 to 2015-08-24

checksums

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citation

If you use this data in a publication or report, please cite using the following:

Calvin Ardi. Amazon EC2 Spot Price History: 2014--2015, 2017--2022. December 2023.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5880792. URL: https://ant.isi.edu/~calvin/data/ec2-spot-price/.
@misc{ardi-2023-data:ec2-spot-price,
  author = {Calvin Ardi},
  title  = {{Amazon EC2 Spot Price History: 2014--2015, 2017--2022}},
  year   = {2023},
  mon    = dec,
  day    = 14,
  doi    = 10.5281/zenodo.5880792,
  url    = {https://ant.isi.edu/~calvin/data/ec2-spot-price/}
}

Send me a pointer to whatever you’ve used this data for, and I’ll add a link to it here.

code

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