Use CreateSpotDatafeedSubscription with an Amazon SDK or CLI

To create a Spot Instance data feed

The following create-spot-datafeed-subscription example creates a Spot Instance data feed.

aws ec2 create-spot-datafeed-subscription \
    --bucket my-bucket \
    --prefix spot-data-feed

Output:

{
    "SpotDatafeedSubscription": {
        "Bucket": "my-bucket",
        "OwnerId": "123456789012",
        "Prefix": "spot-data-feed",
        "State": "Active"
    }
}

The data feed is stored in the Amazon S3 bucket that you specified. The file names for this data feed have the following format.

my-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/spot-data-feed/123456789012.YYYY-MM-DD-HH.n.abcd1234.gz

For more information, see Spot Instance data feed in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide for Linux Instances.

Example 1: This example creates a Spot instance data feed.

New-EC2SpotDatafeedSubscription -Bucket my-s3-bucket -Prefix spotdata

Output:

Bucket  : my-s3-bucket
Fault   :
OwnerId : 123456789012
Prefix  : spotdata
State   : Active