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Describes the Spot price history. For more information, see Spot Instance pricing history in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances.

When you specify a start and end time, the operation returns the prices of the instance types within that time range. It also returns the last price change before the start time, which is the effective price as of the start time.

get/#Action=DescribeSpotPriceHistory

Query parameters

Namestring

The name of the filter. Filter names are case-sensitive.

Valuesstring[]

The filter values. Filter values are case-sensitive. If you specify multiple values for a filter, the values are joined with an <code>OR</code>, and the request returns all results that match any of the specified values.

<p>One or more filters.</p> <ul> <li> <p> <code>availability-zone</code> - The Availability Zone for which prices should be returned.</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>instance-type</code> - The type of instance (for example, <code>m3.medium</code>).</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>product-description</code> - The product description for the Spot price (<code>Linux/UNIX</code> | <code>Red Hat Enterprise Linux</code> | <code>SUSE Linux</code> | <code>Windows</code> | <code>Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC)</code> | <code>Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Amazon VPC)</code> | <code>SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC)</code> | <code>Windows (Amazon VPC)</code>).</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>spot-price</code> - The Spot price. The value must match exactly (or use wildcards; greater than or less than comparison is not supported).</p> </li> <li> <p> <code>timestamp</code> - The time stamp of the Spot price history, in UTC format (for example, <i>YYYY</i>-<i>MM</i>-<i>DD</i>T<i>HH</i>:<i>MM</i>:<i>SS</i>Z). You can use wildcards (* and ?). Greater than or less than comparison is not supported.</p> </li> </ul>
AvailabilityZonestring

Filters the results by the specified Availability Zone.

DryRunboolean

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is <code>DryRunOperation</code>. Otherwise, it is <code>UnauthorizedOperation</code>.

EndTimestring date-time

The date and time, up to the current date, from which to stop retrieving the price history data, in UTC format (for example, <i>YYYY</i>-<i>MM</i>-<i>DD</i>T<i>HH</i>:<i>MM</i>:<i>SS</i>Z).

InstanceTypeInstanceType[]

Filters the results by the specified instance types.

MaxResultsinteger

The maximum number of items to return for this request. To get the next page of items, make another request with the token returned in the output. For more information, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/Query-Requests.html#api-pagination">Pagination</a>.

NextTokenstring

The token returned from a previous paginated request. Pagination continues from the end of the items returned by the previous request.

ProductDescriptionString[]

Filters the results by the specified basic product descriptions.

StartTimestring date-time

The date and time, up to the past 90 days, from which to start retrieving the price history data, in UTC format (for example, <i>YYYY</i>-<i>MM</i>-<i>DD</i>T<i>HH</i>:<i>MM</i>:<i>SS</i>Z).

Action'DescribeSpotPriceHistory' required
Version'2016-11-15' required

Response

Success