Select Server Pricing Type

Objective

Select the correct Server Pricing Type

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Overview

Although there are 3 different EC2 instance purchasing options, you can only manually control whether you launch an On-Demand or Spot Instance. 

• On-Demand Instances
• Reserved Instances
• Spot Instances

Although Reserved Instances are manually purchased from Amazon, it is Amazon, not you, who determines whether your On-Demand instances should be billed at the discounted Reserve Instance price or at the standard On-Demand Instance price.  As a user, you can only control whether or not you are launching an On-Demand or Spot Instance.

Steps

How do you select a Server's Pricing Type?  By default, all Servers will be configured to launch On-Demand Instance types unless you overwrite this preference at the Server level.  Once a Server has been added to a Deployment:

• Select "Spot" as the instance type under a Server's Info tab
• Click Edit.  If you want to launch a "Spot" instance type, you will also need to define the Maximum Bid Price.  Use the "history" link to view recent changes to the current spot price. 

Note: Amazon typically changes the spots randomly throughout the day.

•  Click the Save action button when ready

Note:  Spot Instances do not support start/stop functionality.  Click here for more information.

See also

• Server States
  
• AWS Pricing