AWS metadata: Check if EC2 instance is spot

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There's a AWS metadata service which provides some information about the EC2 instance that issues a request to http://169.254.169.254/. I'm wondering if there's a way to know from that metadata if the instance is "Spot" or "On Demand"?

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The information is not available inside the metadata.

However, you can get the instance ID from the metadata, then call ec2-describe-instances to get instance information about your instance. Inside that instance description is the spot instance request ID. If blank, then it's not a spot instance, otherwise, it's a spot instance.

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