Spot Instance Request
Provides an EC2 Spot Instance Request resource. This allows instances to be requested on the spot market. By default this provider creates Spot Instance Requests with a persistent
type, which means that for the duration of their lifetime, AWS will launch an instance with the configured details if and when the spot market will accept the requested price. On destruction, this provider will make an attempt to terminate the associated Spot Instance if there is one present. Spot Instances requests with a one-time
type will close the spot request when the instance is terminated either by the request being below the current spot price availability or by a user.
NOTE: Because their behavior depends on the live status of the spot market, Spot Instance Requests have a unique lifecycle that makes them behave differently than other resources. Most importantly: there is no guarantee that a Spot Instance exists to fulfill the request at any given point in time. See the [AWS Spot Instance
documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-spot-instances.html) for more information.
**NOTE AWS strongly discourages the use of the legacy APIs called by this resource. We recommend using the EC2 Instance resource with
instance_market_options
instead.
Example Usage
package generated_program;
import com.pulumi.Context;
import com.pulumi.Pulumi;
import com.pulumi.core.Output;
import com.pulumi.aws.ec2.SpotInstanceRequest;
import com.pulumi.aws.ec2.SpotInstanceRequestArgs;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Map;
import java.io.File;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
public class App {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Pulumi.run(App::stack);
}
public static void stack(Context ctx) {
var cheapWorker = new SpotInstanceRequest("cheapWorker", SpotInstanceRequestArgs.builder()
.ami("ami-1234")
.instanceType("c4.xlarge")
.spotPrice("0.03")
.tags(Map.of("Name", "CheapWorker"))
.build());
}
}
Properties
The required duration for the Spot instances, in minutes. This value must be a multiple of 60 (60, 120, 180, 240, 300, or 360). The duration period starts as soon as your Spot instance receives its instance ID. At the end of the duration period, Amazon EC2 marks the Spot instance for termination and provides a Spot instance termination notice, which gives the instance a two-minute warning before it terminates. Note that you can't specify an Availability Zone group or a launch group if you specify a duration.
Sets the number of CPU cores for an instance. This option is only supported on creation of instance type that support CPU Options CPU Cores and Threads Per CPU Core Per Instance Type - specifying this option for unsupported instance types will return an error from the EC2 API.
If set to 1, hyperthreading is disabled on the launched instance. Defaults to 2 if not set. See Optimizing CPU Options for more information.
Configuration block for customizing the credit specification of the instance. See Credit Specification below for more details. This provider will only perform drift detection of its value when present in a configuration. Removing this configuration on existing instances will only stop managing it. It will not change the configuration back to the default for the instance type.
If true, the launched EC2 instance will be EBS-optimized. Note that if this is not set on an instance type that is optimized by default then this will show as disabled but if the instance type is optimized by default then there is no need to set this and there is no effect to disabling it. See the EBS Optimized section of the AWS User Guide for more information.
If true, wait for password data to become available and retrieve it. Useful for getting the administrator password for instances running Microsoft Windows. The password data is exported to the password_data
attribute. See GetPasswordData for more information.
IAM Instance Profile to launch the instance with. Specified as the name of the Instance Profile. Ensure your credentials have the correct permission to assign the instance profile according to the EC2 documentation, notably iam:PassRole
.
Shutdown behavior for the instance. Amazon defaults this to stop
for EBS-backed instances and terminate
for instance-store instances. Cannot be set on instance-store instances. See Shutdown Behavior for more information.
Instance type to use for the instance. Required unless launch_template
is specified and the Launch Template specifies an instance type. If an instance type is specified in the Launch Template, setting instance_type
will override the instance type specified in the Launch Template. Updates to this field will trigger a stop/start of the EC2 instance.
List of secondary private IPv4 addresses to assign to the instance's primary network interface (eth0) in a VPC. Can only be assigned to the primary network interface (eth0) attached at instance creation, not a pre-existing network interface i.e., referenced in a network_interface
block. Refer to the Elastic network interfaces documentation to see the maximum number of private IP addresses allowed per instance type.
User data to provide when launching the instance. Do not pass gzip-compressed data via this argument; see user_data_base64
instead. Updates to this field will trigger a stop/start of the EC2 instance by default. If the user_data_replace_on_change
is set then updates to this field will trigger a destroy and recreate.
Can be used instead of user_data
to pass base64-encoded binary data directly. Use this instead of user_data
whenever the value is not a valid UTF-8 string. For example, gzip-encoded user data must be base64-encoded and passed via this argument to avoid corruption. Updates to this field will trigger a stop/start of the EC2 instance by default. If the user_data_replace_on_change
is set then updates to this field will trigger a destroy and recreate.
The end date and time of the request, in UTC RFC3339 format(for example, YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ). At this point, no new Spot instance requests are placed or enabled to fulfill the request. The default end date is 7 days from the current date.