With Spot Instances, you pay the Spot price that's in effect for the time period your instances are running. Spot Instance prices are set by Amazon EC2 and adjust gradually based on long-term trends in supply and demand for Spot Instance capacity. To learn more about pricing, visit the Spot Instance history page. The following table displays the Spot price for each region and instance type (updated every 5 minutes).
Spot Instances are available at a discount of up to 90% off compared to On-Demand pricing. To compare the current Spot prices against standard On-Demand rates, visit the Spot Instance Advisor.
Note that you can now run Linux based RHEL and SUSE AMIs on Spot Instances. Learn more.
Launch an Amazon EC2 Instance for Free
Try Amazon EC2 for FreeAWS Free Tier includes 750 hours of Linux and Windows t2.micro instances each month for one year. To stay within the Free Tier, use only EC2 Micro instances.