Save 60-90% on AWS EC2 Costs
AutoSpotting runs Spot inside your existing AutoScaling groups, with automatic failover to on-demand.
• No re-architecting, no commitments, no lock-in
• Add a tag, install in minutes
• Runs in your account, no SaaS backend
Spot instances are 60-90% cheaper. So why isn't everything on Spot?
Because doing it safely by hand is hard. Spot capacity can be reclaimed on a two-minute notice. To handle that safely, you have to diversify across instance types, drain load balancers, and fall back to on-demand when capacity runs out. For the details, see how AWS Spot instance pricing works.
The usual answers each have a catch: the native AWS tooling makes you re-architect every AutoScaling group, commercial Spot managers run your infrastructure through their SaaS, and Reserved Instances or Savings Plans commit your spend for years. AutoSpotting handles all of it from inside your own account, by adding a tag.
Three ways to run Spot, and the simplest needs a single tag.
Native ASG Spot
- Setup
- Convert each group to launch templates, pick instance types
- Instance-type selection
- You maintain per-group lists
- Failover to on-demand
- No automatic fallback once all configured Spot pools are exhausted
- Where it runs, your data
- AWS-native
- Lock-in
- None, but you re-architected
- Rollout at scale
- Group by group
- Cost
- Free
Commercial Spot manager
- Setup
- Onboard to their SaaS, adopt their group constructs
- Instance-type selection
- Automated
- Failover to on-demand
- Yes
- Where it runs, your data
- Their SaaS, with cross-account access
- Lock-in
- Vendor constructs, hard to leave
- Rollout at scale
- Per their onboarding
- Cost
- A share of savings, often up to ~20%
AutoSpotting
- Setup
- Add a tag, no config changes
- Instance-type selection
- Automated, based on your existing type
- Failover to on-demand
- Automatic, and back to Spot when it recovers
- Where it runs, your data
- Your account, no SaaS backend
- Lock-in
- None; remove the tag to revert
- Rollout at scale
- Whole account or AWS Org, opt-out mode
- Cost
- Free open source, or 10% of savings for the more robust, enhanced commercial version
Making Spot instances safe for production
AutoSpotting has helped thousands of companies and institutions save over $100,000,000 since 2016
Production-Ready Reliability
Automatic failover to on-demand instances ensures your applications stay running even when spot capacity is unavailable.
- Automatic failover keeps capacity when Spot is reclaimed
- Traffic draining for load balancers
- Configurable on-demand instance retention
- Trusted by major enterprises worldwide
Install in Minutes
Get started immediately with CloudFormation or Terraform. Tag your existing AutoScaling groups with 'spot-enabled=true' - no launch template changes required.
- 5-minute installation
- Works with existing infrastructure
- Deploy across multiple AWS accounts with StackSets
- Start saving costs today
Your Data Stays Private
Runs entirely within your AWS account as Lambda functions. No SaaS backend, no external data transmission, minimal IAM permissions required.
- Complete data privacy
- Full auditability and control
- Industry-standard security practices
- No vendor access to your infrastructure
Works With Your Stack
Integrates with ECS, EKS, Elastic Beanstalk, and any service backed by AutoScaling groups. Fits into your existing CI/CD pipelines.
- Zero vendor lock-in
- Easy to suspend or remove anytime
- Complements existing AWS services
- Multi-account support
Pay Only From Savings
Pay only 10% of the savings generated through your AWS bill. Serverless architecture means negligible runtime costs.
- No upfront investment
- Pay only for results
- Free tier for small installations
- Cancel anytime with no penalties
Backed By Expert Support
Stable, tested binaries delivered through AWS Marketplace. Get setup assistance and long-term support from the team that built AutoSpotting.
- Priority support for paying customers
- Help with installation and optimization
- Regular updates and improvements
- Deep AWS expertise from the people who built AutoSpotting
Visual Dashboard & Analytics (Experimental)
A web interface to monitor savings, manage AutoScaling groups, and estimate optimizations, aiming to make AutoSpotting even easier to run at scale.
- In active development
- Off by default until it is stable
- Not required: AutoSpotting runs fully from tags
Typical Scenarios
Where AutoSpotting delivers the most value
Daily capacity scaling
Workloads that scale up and down daily, which can't be effectively covered by Savings Plans or Reserved Instances.
No long-term commitments
When the multi-year commitments of Reserved Instances and Savings Plans aren't desirable for your business.
No upfront payments
Achieve the highest possible cost savings without capital-intensive 3-year all-upfront payments.
Easy adoption at scale
Convert to Spot (and back to on-demand) reliably, without per-group configuration changes. Ideal for large organizations and legacy environments.
Estimate your savings
Even a relatively small AWS footprint often nets over $1,000/month. Generate your own estimate with our free tools, which can also produce your AutoSpotting configuration with a single click.
See AutoSpotting in Action
A quick introduction, and a real installation that reached 85% savings within minutes
How AutoSpotting works
Installed in minutes, 85% savings
Trusted by Leading Organizations
See how companies worldwide are saving millions with AutoSpotting
Jan Čurn
CEO, Apify
I think AutoSpotting has by far the best approach to utilizing spot instances that I've seen. With AutoSpotting we're pretty much able to run our whole stateless production workload on spot instances.
Andreas Sundström
DevOps & Development Director, OhMy
Thanks to AutoSpotting we're saving more than 50% of our server costs on AWS
Falko Zurell
Head of Platform Operations, HERE
Just deployed my first installation of the AutoSpotting tool… It took only 3 minutes and 5 clicks and now I'm saving 60% of my EC2 cost with Spot instances automagically. Kudos Sir!
Levi McCormick
Lead Cloud Engineer, SPSCommerce
I recently launched Autospotting to help with our deployments that can't use fleets. It's been working really well.
Pierre Allétru
CEO, postale.io
AutoSpotting is a fantastic service that has exceeded our expectations on what we were looking for: easy conversion to spot, fallback to on-demand, and no lock in. It completely crushes its competitors. Cristian also provided excellent support. Thank you for a job well done!
Jacob Cooper
CTO, Flip CX
This was amazing technical support - thank you!!! I wish I got this from every provider that I worked with, wow.
Klas Wikblad
CTO, APPRL
AutoSpotting is such a great product, just incredibly smooth and well working. We did not even notice that it was running for several years.
Trusted by teams at leading companies worldwide
Flexible Pricing Options
Choose the plan that best fits your needs
Community Edition
Free and open-source. The commercial edition adds tested binaries, enterprise support and the latest enhancements.
- Open Source (OSL-3.0 license)
- Community support via GitHub
- Build from source code
- Unlimited customization
- No savings limits
- Perfect for evaluation
- Must share any software changes with the community
Pay as you go
10% of monthly savings
- Installs in minutes via CloudFormation or Terraform
- Enterprise support included
- Charged on your AWS bill
- Pay as you go - no upfront costs
- Perpetual free tier for small installations
- Tested and stable binaries
- AWS Marketplace billing
- Cancel anytime
Enterprise
Custom flat pricing based on your footprint
- Predictable flat monthly fee
- Based on your AWS footprint
- Priority enterprise support
- Custom SLAs on request
- A dedicated point of contact
- Onboarding and training available
- Volume discounts
- Annual billing options
- Customizations and whitelabeling available as additional service
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about AutoSpotting
How is AutoSpotting different from the native AWS Auto Scaling Spot integration?
To adopt Spot the native way, you convert each Auto Scaling group to a launch template with a mixed instances policy, choose the Spot instance types and allocation strategy, and set the Spot/on-demand split. AutoSpotting instead works with your existing groups as they are, launch configuration or launch template. You just add a tag, with no change to the group.
Key differences:
- Automatic on-demand fail-over. When Spot runs out across all compatible types, AutoSpotting falls back to on-demand and returns to Spot once capacity recovers. The native integration does not: it simply runs fewer instances, so you silently drop to reduced capacity. This is common during high-demand periods like the year-end holiday season.
- Fleet-wide rollout with no config changes. Enable it across a whole account or AWS Organization in opt-out mode, without converting a single group to launch templates.
- Automated instance-type selection. It picks compatible types from your existing on-demand instance, so you do not maintain per-group lists.
- Works out of the box with Spot termination notices, load-balancer draining, and Elastic Beanstalk.
- No lock-in. Turn it on or off at will (including from CI/CD or on a schedule) and revert to pure on-demand instantly.
The trade-offs, in fairness: a small runtime cost, and a usage-based fee if you use the commercial enhanced version rather than building from source.
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Still have questions?
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