How to identify when a spot instance receives a termination notice

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When running spot instances, if AWS needs to reclaim that capacity (or if the current Spot price exceeds our bid price) we will receive a two minutes grace period to be able to save any data we need.

To check is we need to terminate our tasks on the spot instance we can use the instance's metadata

24/05/2022

How to get EC2 instance ID and other metadata

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On an EC2 instance we can retrieve some of it's metadata by using curl. Let's see how

24/03/2021