get ec2 pricing programmatically?

Question

Is there a way to get AWS pricing programmatically (cost per hour of each instance type, cost per GB/month of storage on S3, and etc)?

Also, are there cost monitorin

Answer 1

In addition to @arturhoo's answer which provides the EC2 spots

You can obtain the historic prices with the CLI tool

aws ec2 describe-spot-price-history \
    --instance-types m1.xlarge \
    --product-description "Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC)" \
    --start-time 2016-10-31T03:00:00 \
    --end-time 2016-10-31T03:16:00 \
    --query 'SpotPriceHistory[*].[Timestamp,SpotPrice]'

which takes the spot price between 3:00am and 3:16am Monday 31st October 2016 (UTC)

[
    [
        "2016-10-31T03:06:12.000Z", 
        "0.041500"
    ], 
    [
        "2016-10-31T03:00:26.000Z", 
        "0.041600"
    ], 
    [
        "2016-10-31T02:59:14.000Z", 
        "0.041500"
    ], 
    [
        "2016-10-31T02:00:18.000Z", 
        "0.040600"
    ], 
    [
        "2016-10-30T23:55:06.000Z", 
        "0.043200"
    ]
]