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Spot Instance support for your Elastic Beanstalk environment

This topic describes the configuration options that are available for you to manage the capacity and load balancing of Spot Instances in your Elastic Beanstalk environment. It also provides details and examples for the methods you can use to configure these options. You can use the Elastic Beanstalk console, namespace configuration options, the Amazon CLI, or the EB CLI to manage the configuration options.

Minimize Spot instance interruptions with Capacity Rebalancing

To help minimize the impact of Spot Instance interruptions to your application, you can enable the Capacity Rebalancing option included with Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling.

When you enable Capacity Rebalancing, EC2 automatically attempts to replace Spot Instances in an Auto Scaling group before they are interrupted. To enable this feature use the Elastic Beanstalk console to configure the Auto Scaling group. Alternatively, you can set the Elastic Beanstalk EnableCapacityRebalancing configuration option to true in the aws:autoscaling:asg namespace.

For more information, see Capacity Rebalancing in the Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling User Guide and Spot Instance Interruptions in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

Older Instance Types and Spot Instance Support

Some older Amazon accounts might provide Elastic Beanstalk with default instance types that don't support Spot Instances. If you enable Spot Instance requests and you see the error None of the instance types you specified supports Spot, update your configuration with instance types that support Spot Instances. To choose Spot Instance types, use the Spot Instance Advisor.