EC2.shop API

About EC2.shop API

EC2.shop is a command-line-accessible tool for checking and comparing AWS service pricing, accessed via curl or HTTP requests rather than a web dashboard. It covers pricing for EC2, ElastiCache, ElasticSearch, ActiveMQ, MSK, RDS, Redshift, and EBS. Responses are available in plain text or JSON (via an `accept: json` header), and results can be filtered by fields such as memory, CPU, price, spot price, GPU cores, and GPU memory, with support for comparison expressions, exclusion of instance types, and sorting by one or more fields.

On-demand pricing is sourced directly from AWS's on-demand pricing page and is described as highly accurate; spot instance pricing is refreshed from AWS's spot pricing page roughly twice every 5 minutes, so it may lag actual spot prices by up to several minutes. The project provides a Dockerfile, Kubernetes configuration, and a Makefile for self-hosting, and stores its data in JSON files with no external database.

The tool is aimed at developers and operators who want a fast, terminal-based way to look up or compare AWS instance and service pricing without loading the AWS pricing pages, and is suited for scripting or text-processing workflows (e.g., with awk) given its plain-text and JSON output formats.

Key features

• Curl-able terminal interface for AWS EC2 and other service pricing (no web dashboard needed)
• Covers EC2, ElastiCache, ElasticSearch, ActiveMQ, MSK, RDS, Redshift, and EBS pricing
• Filter instances by fields like mem, cpu, price, spotprice, gpu_core, gpu_mem, including comparison expressions
• Exclude instance types from results using the - operator
• Sort results by one or more fields, ascending or descending
• Supports both plain-text and JSON response formats via an accept header

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