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

using the aws cli (in the examples below, I have also included how the same thing can be executed using jq)

to get a list of service codes:

aws pricing describe-services --region us-east-1

to get a list of service codes (with jq):

aws pricing describe-services --region us-east-1 | jq -r '.Services[] | .ServiceCode'

which will return values like:

AmazonEC2
AmazonS3
AmazonRoute53
[...]

to get a list of attributes for a given service code:

aws pricing describe-services --service-code AmazonEC2 --region us-east-1

to get a list of attributes for a given service code (with jq):

aws pricing describe-services --service-code AmazonEC2 --region us-east-1 | jq -r '.Services[] | .AttributeNames[]'

which will return values like:

instancesku
location
memory
vcpu
volumeType
[...]

to get pricing info now that you have a service code and attribute:

(this will take a while since it is every sku for the service code, so I will show examples using filtering further down)

aws pricing get-products --service-code AmazonEC2 --region us-east-1

to get pricing info now that you have a service code and attribute using a filter on instanceType and another for location:

aws pricing get-products --service-code AmazonEC2 --filters "Type=TERM_MATCH,Field=instanceType,Value=m5.xlarge" "Type=TERM_MATCH,Field=location,Value=US East (N. Virginia)" --region us-east-1

to get pricing info now that you have a service code and attribute using a filter on instanceType and another for location (with jq):

aws pricing get-products --service-code AmazonEC2 --filters "Type=TERM_MATCH,Field=instanceType,Value=m5.xlarge" "Type=TERM_MATCH,Field=location,Value=US East (N. Virginia)" --region us-east-1 | jq -rc '.PriceList[]' | jq -r '[ .product.attributes.servicecode, .product.attributes.location, .product.attributes.instancesku?, .product.attributes.instanceType, .product.attributes.usagetype, .product.attributes.operatingSystem, .product.attributes.memory, .product.attributes.physicalProcessor, .product.attributes.processorArchitecture, .product.attributes.vcpu, .product.attributes.currentGeneration, .terms.OnDemand[].priceDimensions[].unit, .terms.OnDemand[].priceDimensions[].pricePerUnit.USD, .terms.OnDemand[].priceDimensions[].description] | @csv'

which will return values like:

"AmazonEC2","US East (N. Virginia)","EWZRARGKPMTYQJFP","m5.xlarge","UnusedDed:m5.xlarge","Linux","16 GiB","Intel Xeon Platinum 8175 (Skylake)","64-bit","4","Yes","Hrs","0.6840000000","$0.684 per Dedicated Unused Reservation Linux with SQL Std m5.xlarge Instance Hour"```
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