The idea behind this library is to allow for optimization of AWS Spot Requests.
Spot requests are a great way to reduce costs for processing that does not need to be guaranteed. Examples include EMR jobs, one off provisioned EC2 instances.
Unfortunately, bidding on Spot Requests is far from optimized. There are many different instance types and EC2 regions where competition and volatility is not consistent so you may have m1.large beind more expensive than c1.xlarge.
In other words, it is a imperfect marketplace of computing commodity.
The idea behind this package is to do a quick analysis of volatility and pricing between different instance types and regions and report the best instance and price to bid on at this particular point of time.
This functionality can be used in a variety of ways: use through a webpage, REST API, Command-line, or as a Python lib.
Run setup.py in the repo folder.
python setup.py install
You will need to set two environment variables to access AWS services.
export AWS_SECRET_KEY =
export AWS_AUTH_KEY =
Finally,
perfectspot