FWIW your "trick" has been the default for years. Unless you specify otherwise, the default max price is the on-demand price. They changed this back in 2017. Ma

FWIW your "trick" has been the default for years. Unless you specify otherwise, the default max price is the on-demand price. They changed this back in 2017. Maximum price isn't really used by anyone any more. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/new-amazon-ec2-spot-pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/new-amazon-ec2-spot-pri... We spend about $10k/month on spot instances and I don't specify any max price. The way to avoid terminations is just to make sure you spread your workload over a large number of instance types and availability zones.