Rebuilding Spot Instances
Cancelling existing spot requests
- Login to aws console
- Top menu: Services -> EC2
- Left sidebar: Spot Requests
- Select all the spot requests you want to cancel.
- Click the cancel button on the top
- Cancelling the spot request does not terminate the instances that are currently running.That is the next step.
Killing spot instances
- Login to aws console
- Top menu: Services -> EC2
- Left sidebar: Instances -> Instances
- Sort by name
- Those without a name are Spot instances
- Select them all and terminate
Creating new spot request
Navigation to spot requests wizzard
- Login to aws console
- Top menu: Services -> EC2
- Left sidebar: Instances -> Spot Requests
- Blue button: Request Spot Instances
Spot requests Wizzard
- Step 1: Choose an Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
- click: my amis
- search for audenti_spot_worker_ami OR search by ami id if you know it
- pick the one with latest timestamo
- Step 2: Choose an Instance Type
- pick: c3.xlarge OR c4.xlarge
- Step 3: Configure Instance Details
- Input: number of instances desired -
upper limited by other resource usage(more usage higher limit) and per instance
type availability
- Input: Maximum Price
- Check: Persistent request
- Select: Network - audienti_vpc
- Select: Subnet - audienti_worker_...
- Step 4: Add Storage
- Leave as is
- Step 5: Tag Spot Request
- Leave as is or tag as desired, example: 10 c3.xlarge at 0.5
- Step 6: Configure Security Group
- Click: Select an existing security group
- Click: audienti_workers_securitygroup
- Step 7: Review Spot Instance Request
- Click: Lunch
- Select: Choose an existing key pair
- Select: audienti_aws_servers_useast1
- Click: I acknowledge ...
- Click: Request Spot Instances