1**To describe Spot price history**
2
3This example command returns the Spot Price history for m1.xlarge instances for a particular day in January.
4
5Command::
6
7  aws ec2 describe-spot-price-history --instance-types m1.xlarge --start-time 2014-01-06T07:08:09 --end-time 2014-01-06T08:09:10
8
9Output::
10
11  {
12    "SpotPriceHistory": [
13            {
14                "Timestamp": "2014-01-06T07:10:55.000Z",
15                "ProductDescription": "SUSE Linux",
16                "InstanceType": "m1.xlarge",
17                "SpotPrice": "0.087000",
18                "AvailabilityZone": "us-west-1b"
19            },
20            {
21                "Timestamp": "2014-01-06T07:10:55.000Z",
22                "ProductDescription": "SUSE Linux",
23                "InstanceType": "m1.xlarge",
24                "SpotPrice": "0.087000",
25                "AvailabilityZone": "us-west-1c"
26            },
27            {
28                "Timestamp": "2014-01-06T05:42:36.000Z",
29                "ProductDescription": "SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC)",
30                "InstanceType": "m1.xlarge",
31                "SpotPrice": "0.087000",
32                "AvailabilityZone": "us-west-1a"
33        },
34        ...
35  }
36
37
38**To describe Spot price history for Linux/UNIX Amazon VPC**
39
40This example command returns the Spot Price history for m1.xlarge, Linux/UNIX Amazon VPC instances for a particular day in January.
41
42Command::
43
44  aws ec2 describe-spot-price-history --instance-types m1.xlarge --product-description "Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC)" --start-time 2014-01-06T07:08:09 --end-time 2014-01-06T08:09:10
45
46Output::
47
48  {
49    "SpotPriceHistory": [
50        {
51            "Timestamp": "2014-01-06T04:32:53.000Z",
52            "ProductDescription": "Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC)",
53            "InstanceType": "m1.xlarge",
54            "SpotPrice": "0.080000",
55            "AvailabilityZone": "us-west-1a"
56        },
57        {
58            "Timestamp": "2014-01-05T11:28:26.000Z",
59            "ProductDescription": "Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC)",
60            "InstanceType": "m1.xlarge",
61            "SpotPrice": "0.080000",
62            "AvailabilityZone": "us-west-1c"
63        }
64    ]
65  }