Windows Application/Service to detect spot instances terminations and publish to SNS for further customized notification for example sending emails or text.
##Summary
AWS notifies spot instances of imminent termination, for example due to the spot price exceding the requested max price, by means of instance meta data. When termination has been scheduled, this time is made available though an http request to http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/spot/termination-time. This application will poll the url every 5 seconds. If termination is detected it will post a message to SNS, Amazon's Simple Notification Service. An admin can configure SNS the pick up on this message and take the appropriate actions, for example send an email or a text. Other applications subscribing to the topic will also be notified of the event.
Read more about Spot instance termination notices here.
An SNS topic will automatically be created, if not existing. By default the topic is similar to arn:aws:sns:eu-west-1:860264074053:SpotInstanceTermination. Override this with
Credentials and region is specified through any means available by AWS .net sdk, for example
or using a credentials file:
##Command line
Just do
SpotStop2SNS.exe -Start
##Windows binaries and installer
An installer can be downloaded here which will install the application as a windows service.
##Related
Ec2spotstop2sns on Cosmik Debris.
If you'd like to debug this app locally, see the MockECSInstanceMetaData project.