A tool to convert AWS EC2 instances back and forth between On-Demand
ec2-spot-converter
This tool converts existing AWS EC2 instances back and forth between On-Demand and ‘persistent’ Spot billing models while preserving instance attributes (Launch configuration, Tags..), network attributes (existing Private IP addresses, Elastic IP), storage (Volumes), Elastic Inference accelerators, Elastic GPUs.
Others features:
- Can also perform Spot-to-Spot and OnDemand-to-OnDemand conversions:
- Allow replacement of existing Spot instances with new “identical” ones to update the instance type and CPU options,
- Help to fix some Spot instance conditions (Ex: ‘IncorrectSpotRequestState Exception’),
- Allow Root Disk encryption during conversion.
- Can preserve ELB Target Group instance registrations (disabled by default),
- Can update existing CloudWatch alarms referring the converted Instance Id (disabled by default),
Conversion time ranges from 2 to 5 minutes depending on the instance type.
IMPORTANT REMARK: This tool aims to ease