AutoSpotting VS ec2instances.info

There's a service that handles obtaining the cheapest spot instances to your specs by a former aws engineer https://github.com/LeanerCloud/AutoSpotting

Effectively, it starts up cheap spot instances (based on specified criteria) across a variety of instance types to replace whatever regular instance in an autoscaling group comes online and then spins down the regular instance.

EG: That m4a you wanted may be expensive... but nobody is using m4ad so it's 85% off and it meets the specified CPU/RAM requirements... auto spotting will spin it up instead.

Having used it on and off over the years it is sometimes eyebrow raising to see 4xl boxes running cheaper than the xl box they replaced :)

I've been heavily using ChatGPT on my autospotting.io software, where it 3-5x my productivity, releasing in 6 weeks more improvements than in the previous 6 months combined: https://github.com/LeanerCloud/AutoSpotting/discussions/489

Relevant: https://github.com/cloudutil/AutoSpotting

I've seen some third party services that automate migration to / replacement with spot instances, but haven't used them yet personally.

Going serverless, in many places, has been the most effective cost optimization for me.

I've also been maintaining a Golang library that essentially exposes the same data structure used under the hood by ec2instances.info as a Golang data structure, which is very convenient for embedding into other tools that can do lots of things with this raw data, like I do it in my AutoSpotting project.

I think autospotting can do this.

https://github.com/AutoSpotting/AutoSpotting is an interesting project that might help you with implementing this. It will automatically swap-out on-demand instances for spot and auto-restart as on-demand if spot capacity disappears.

we scale up to about 100 machines. We use spot instances EXTENSIVELY. And that configuration was tricky actually. Its been a couple of months now. Works pretty ok.

k3s is actually pretty simple to use now. the tricky part was to integrate with https://github.com/kubernetes/cloud-provider-aws and https://github.com/DirectXMan12/k8s-prometheus-adapter

The hardest part is to get it to work with spot instances. we use https://github.com/AutoSpotting/AutoSpotting to integrate with it.

This web page for comparing EC2 pricing using filtering https://instances.vantage.sh/?region=us-east-2 is open source https://github.com/vantage-sh/ec2instances.info

Worked on adding Dedicated Host pricing to https://ec2instances.info so it can display pricing for mac1 and mac2 AWS instances. Ended up being much more involved than expected, https://github.com/vantage-sh/ec2instances.info/pull/667

It's community supported! We just pay the bills and maintain hosting it :)

Do you mind opening an issue on the repo here? https://github.com/vantage-sh/ec2instances.info

Thank you for the report!

Hey HN, 10 years after the project began we have updated the UI for the cloud server comparison site known as EC2Instances.info. This refresh brings a sticky filter bar so you can scroll and see what filters are applied, a more compact navbar, and improved UX for comparing instances.

I've also fixed numerous long standing UI bugs including: comparisons now load correctly on RDS and ElastiCache, sort by max ENI works, sort by RDS instance storage works, and all dropdowns have consistent behavior.

For maintainers and contributors, all the frontend libraries are upgraded to their latest versions, https://github.com/vantage-sh/ec2instances.info. Going forward, we are aware that the homepage size is quite large and have plans to address this.

We have tried to be good stewards of this project and evolve it carefully. Eager to hear what you think of the new UI!

Disclaimer: I maintain https://github.com/vantage-sh/ec2instances.info for them

Hi everyone! I am the new maintainer for ec2instances.info, an AWS server comparison site. I just shipped my first major feature called Detail Pages, https://github.com/vantage-sh/ec2instances.info/commit/31e2fb41a280eb86da9d135b4b852f8d6325c33f

Sorry for being harsh, but it is really screwed up for Firefox users. For me it's completely unusable, because when trying to filter it freezes for more than 20 seconds before displaying the filtered values. And that's on a rather recent desktop PC.

There is an open bug report regarding that, however nothing has happened in the past year to fix it: https://github.com/vantage-sh/ec2instances.info/issues/586

https://github.com/vantage-sh/ec2instances.info/issues/316 https://github.com/vantage-sh/ec2instances.info/issues/617