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jq to grab AWS instance hourly cost
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| curl --silent "http://www.ec2instances.info/instances.json" | jq '.[] | select(.instance_type=="r4.large").pricing["eu-west-1"].linux.ondemand' |
Optionally curl --silent "http://www.ec2instances.info/instances.json" | jq '.[] | select(.instance_type=="r4.large").pricing["eu-west-1"].linux.ondemand' | sed 's/"//g'
will remove the doublequotes
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This will fetch the current AWS instance price for a given instance type in a given region. It uses ec2instances.info which is generally an accurate and reliable source.