I wrote a script to retrieve EC2 instance type info such as vCPU, clock speed, memory, network and save it to a tab-separated file. It’s just a nice wrapper around the aws command.

I created this for a friend and thought it might be useful to others. Since he is using Excel, silly me thought he was using Windows, but alas, he is using MacOS. Either way, you will need to have jq installed.

I have also written a cross-platform program to get spotprice information which I think is a little easier than using the aws CLI. It also runs faster and has a few more features.