Amazon EC2 Spot 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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User Reviews

Overview

Amazon EC2 Spot

5.0

(5)

Pricing

Starting at $0.01 one time

About Amazon EC2 Spot

Amazon EC2 Spot provides businesses with EC2 instances to launch and run various applications such as CI/CD, big data, containerized workloads, web servers and high-performance computing (HPC) systems. It enables DevOps teams to increase Amazon EC2 capacity, render images and automate workflows.

Amazon EC2 Spot allows software developers to automatically stop or terminate Spot instances and analyze disparate data. Amazon EC2 Spot comes with an application programming interface (API), which facilitates integration with several third-party platforms such as Thinkbox Deadline, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), AWS CloudFormation and more.

Pricing is based on businesses’ supply and demand for Spot instance capacity.

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Amazon EC2 Spot Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $0.01 one time

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$0.01

flat rate, one time

No plan information available

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Amazon EC2 Spot Features

Popular features found in Big Data
Access Controls/Permissions
Collaboration Tools
Data Blending
Data Connectors
Data Security
Data Visualization
Data Warehousing
Forecasting
High Volume Processing
Predictive Analytics
Statistical Analysis
More features of Amazon EC2 Spot
API
Automated Testing
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Deployment
Data Cleansing
Data Discovery
For Developers
Multi-User Collaboration
Repository Management
Source-Code Scanning

Amazon EC2 Spot Integrations

Amazon EC2

Jenkins

Amazon EC2 Spot User Reviews

Overall Rating

5.0

Ratings Breakdown

100%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.8

Value for money

4.7

Customer support

4.3

Functionality

4.8

Have you used Amazon EC2 Spot and would like to share your experience with others?

Verified

Reviewer

Consumer Goods

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

Save cost exponentially with this amazing server

I along with my team saved around $3000 per year just bh replacing on-demand instances with spot ones.Also, got recognised for this as this was done without any data loss.Now migrating remaining 30% applications data on spot automatically.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Just bet about 10% higher than forecasted cost and it works seamlessly like any other server by saving you from long bills.Easy to implementEasily replaceableWorks good for non-critical jobsBenefits organisations in many waysBest for batch processing and big data jobs

Cons:

Not for prod/critical jobs.They can go away if bidding is higher.

Reasons for choosing Amazon EC2 Spot

Cheapest

Sameh H.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

Easy to set up instance, Easy to link between sites, higher support team, Easy to handle anything.

Overall This software is amazing, It helps me to handle many sites when i setting on my office

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like everything in that software because of it is easy to handle what you want

Cons:

Actually, there is no problem, I like this software because it does have not any problems

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

Amazon EC2 Spot Instances - On Spot for all your in frequent usage

Great

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The On Spot functionality is useful when we need the infrastructure to be hosted not so frequently and as per the need. This prevents us to spend money on infrastructure which is not needed at times and is cost friendly.Good for Big Data Jobs which need to run only for sometime.

Cons:

Unavailability might impact some critical scenarios and should be taken into consideration while planning to opt for Spot

Brice T.

Verified reviewer

Banking

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

Amazon EC2 Spot