Spot price per unit hour example

The following table compares the hourly price for Spot Instances in different Availability Zones in US East (Northern Virginia) with the price for On-Demand Instances in the same Region. The prices shown are example pricing and not current pricing. These are your costs per instance hour.

With instance weights, you can evaluate your costs based on what you use per unit hour. You can determine the price per unit hour by dividing your price for an instance type by the number of units that it represents. For On-Demand Instances, the price per unit hour is the same when deploying one instance type as it is when deploying a different size of the same instance type. In contrast, however, the Spot price per unit hour varies by Spot pool.

The following example shows how the Spot price per unit hour calculation works with instance weights. For ease of calculation, let's say you want to launch Spot Instances only in us-east-1a. The per unit hour price is captured in the following table.