Can I be sure that the prices from this endpoint are accurate (i.e. if Amzn changes the prices, this endpoint will reflect that change)?
Off-topic: if I request a spot instance, is there any way (API/cli) to know how much Amzn charges me every hour for that instance?
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#42I like this trend
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#43Can I be sure that the prices from this endpoint are accurate (i.e. if Amzn changes the prices, this endpoint will reflect that change)? Off-topic: if I request a spot instance, is there any way (API/cli) to know how much Amzn charges me every hour for that instance?
I've built something like this in the past (I was running a beefy server for my friends, and wanted them to know how much it was costing us at an hourly rate, before they ran it for 3 weeks straight).
It's definitely possible and not very challenging, but the API Documentation for prices was pretty weak when I built it (a year or two ago, written in Go if it makes a difference). The google cloud prices API was similarly gross. It was kinda fun, but I wouldn't enjoy maintaining that code. In reality, it turns out that $/hour isn't a super straightforward metric (there are many dimensions that go into it), so it's not super straightforward to query.
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#44Very neat. Anyone know why
curl -s https://ec2.shop | grep 't2'
curl -s https://ec2.shop | grep 'm4'
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#45Is this open sourced? I personally try looking into implementing a curl "interface" to one of my projects, realised that it actually need to check the user-agent (of curl and a plethora of curl alternatives) which I find kind of weird...
Hey, yes it's 100% open source.
https://github.com/yeo/ec2.shop
The reason it check `curl` agent is because it share the same endpoint (root url) for both of `curl` page and browser version(the one with dropdown, grid etc)
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#46Could you update the `...&filter...` example to wrap the URL in quotes so that the `&` isn't interpretted by the shell as sending the process to the background?
Ah crap, yes, going to update it.
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#47Wow, thank you for the feedback. I'm going to implement lot of features suggest in this page.
Since I cannot edit original comment, yes, the site is open source: https://github.com/yeo/ec2.shop
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#48Can I be sure that the prices from this endpoint are accurate (i.e. if Amzn changes the prices, this endpoint will reflect that change)? Off-topic: if I request a spot instance, is there any way (API/cli) to know how much Amzn charges me every hour for that instance?
I think the price is accurate. It's fetched directly from this Amazon endpoint. https://github.com/yeo/ec2.shop/blob/master/download.sh#L9
I'm going to add spot instance. Will just need to figure out what URL AWS is fetching
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#49You can do cool things with this very quickly. For example, I always wondered the price differences between different regions, you can compare two instance prices quickly:
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#50Very neat. Anyone know why curl -s https://ec2.shop | grep 't2' would work, but curl -s https://ec2.shop | grep 'm4' does not? Both commands work if I write the curl result to a file, but when I pipe from curl, the pattern `m4` matches all instances of the number 4.
It’s not matching every number 4, just the ones at the start of a column. The m is coming from “ESC[31m”, the escape code used to set the color of the text in the column.