aws_spot_instance_request

Provides an EC2 Spot Instance Request resource. This allows instances to be requested on the spot market.

Terraform always creates Spot Instance Requests with a persistent type, which means that for the duration of their lifetime, AWS will launch an instance with the configured details if and when the spot market will accept the requested price.

On destruction, Terraform will make an attempt to terminate the associated Spot Instance if there is one present.

~> NOTE: Because their behavior depends on the live status of the spot market, Spot Instance Requests have a unique lifecycle that makes them behave differently than other Terraform resources. Most importantly: there is no guarantee that a Spot Instance exists to fulfill the request at any given point in time. See the AWS Spot Instance documentation for more information.

Example Usage

# Request a spot instance at $0.03
resource "aws_spot_instance_request" "cheap_worker" {
    ami = "ami-1234"
    spot_price = "0.03"
    instance_type = "c4.xlarge"
    tags {
        Name = "CheapWorker"
    }
}

Argument Reference

Spot Instance Requests support all the same arguments as aws_instance, with the addition of:

• spot_price - (Required) The price to request on the spot market.
• wait_for_fulfillment - (Optional; Default: false) If set, Terraform will wait for the Spot Request to be fulfilled, and will throw an error if the timeout of 10m is reached.
• spot_type - (Optional; Default: “persistent”) If set to “one-time”, after the instance is terminated, the spot request will be closed. Also, Terraform can’t manage one-time spot requests, just launch them.
• block_duration_minutes - (Optional) The required duration for the Spot instances, in minutes. This value must be a multiple of 60 (60, 120, 180, 240, 300, or 360). The duration period starts as soon as your Spot instance receives its instance ID. At the end of the duration period, Amazon EC2 marks the Spot instance for termination and provides a Spot instance termination notice, which gives the instance a two-minute warning before it terminates. Note that you can’t specify an Availability Zone group or a launch group if you specify a duration.

Attributes Reference

The following attributes are exported:

• id - The Spot Instance Request ID.

These attributes are exported, but they are expected to change over time and so should only be used for informational purposes, not for resource dependencies:

• spot_bid_status - The current bid status of the Spot Instance Request.
• spot_request_state The current request state of the Spot Instance Request.
• spot_instance_id - The Instance ID (if any) that is currently fulfilling the Spot Instance request.
• public_dns - The public DNS name assigned to the instance. For EC2-VPC, this is only available if you’ve enabled DNS hostnames for your VPC
• public_ip - The public IP address assigned to the instance, if applicable.
• private_dns - The private DNS name assigned to the instance. Can only be used inside the Amazon EC2, and only available if you’ve enabled DNS hostnames for your VPC
• private_ip - The private IP address assigned to the instance

See the source of this document at Terraform.io