https://autospotting.io/categories/cost-optimization.htmlRecent content in Cost Optimization on AutoSpottingHugoenThu, 16 Jul 2026 21:58:55 +0300https://autospotting.io/blog/leanercloud/2023-05-10-ec2-spot-pricing-thoughts.htmlWed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://autospotting.io/blog/leanercloud/2023-05-10-ec2-spot-pricing-thoughts.html<h1 id="my-thoughts-on-the-current-state-of-ec2-spot-pricing">My thoughts on the current state of EC2 Spot pricing</h1> <h2 id="and-what-you-can-do-about-it">And what you can do about it</h2> <p>May 10, 2023</p> <p>I&rsquo;ve recently seen a <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35802157&amp;utm_source=leanercloud.beehiiv.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=my-thoughts-on-the-current-state-of-ec2-spot-pricing">post</a> on HackerNews discussing an interesting <a href="https://pauley.me/post/2023/spot-price-trends/?utm_source=leanercloud.beehiiv.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=my-thoughts-on-the-current-state-of-ec2-spot-pricing">article</a> titled “Farewell to the Era of Cheap EC2 Spot Instances”, painting a pretty depressing picture of recent trends of EC2 Spot pricing.</p> <p><img src="https://autospotting.io/images/blog/leanercloud-content/thoughts-current-state-ec2-spot-pricing/image-2.png" alt="Illustration from: My Thoughts on the Current State of EC2 Spot Pricing" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </p> <p>As someone building AWS cost optimization <a href="http://autospotting.io/?utm_source=leanercloud.beehiiv.com&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=my-thoughts-on-the-current-state-of-ec2-spot-pricing">tooling</a> that makes it easy for people to use Spot instances, I&rsquo;m pretty familiar with this space so thought I&rsquo;d share my 2 cents about this current situation and wanted to also offer a few suggestions to Spot users who want to still get the most of Spot instances.</p>