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New – Attribute-Based Instance Type Selection for EC2 Auto Scaling and EC2

https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ The first AWS service I used, more than ten years ago, was https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/. With https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-fleet.html, you can synchronously request capacity across multiple instance types and purchase options, launching your instances across multiple https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/regions_az/#Availability_Zones, using the On-Demand, Reserved, and https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/ together.

EC2 Fleet and EC2 Auto Scaling select and launch instances that fit the specified attributes, removing the need to manually pick instance types.

How Attribute-Based Instance Type Selection Works With ABS, you replace the list of instance types with your instance requirements.

EC2 Auto Scaling or EC2 Fleet will resolve ABS attributes to a list of instance types and will launch the lowest priced instance first to fulfill the On-Demand portion of the capacity request, moving to the next lowest priced instance if needed.