I’m trying to create an EC2 Spot instance and I’m running into 2 problems. 1. The tags are assigned to the spot request, but not the instance itself. How can I create a spot instance that is tagged?

tags_all

doesn’t seem to do anything in my tests. 2. When I delete the resource (remove the code from pulumi and

pulumi up

) — the spot request is cancelled, but the underlying EC2 instance continues to run. How do I get pulumi to shut down the EC2 instance as well?

import pulumi           
import pulumi_aws as aws

test_instance = aws.ec2.SpotInstanceRequest(
    "test_spot_instance",
    ami="ami-09e67e426f25ce0d7",
    spot_price='0.55',
    spot_type='one-time',
    subnet_id='subnet-302a5579',
    associate_public_ip_address=True,
    ebs_optimized=True,
    ebs_block_devices=[ebs],
    iam_instance_profile="ecsInstanceRole",
    instance_type="m5.xlarge",
    key_name="test-keypair",
    source_dest_check=True,
    tags={
        "Name": "TestSpot",
    },
    tags_all={
        "Name": "TestSpotAll",
        "tags_all": "yes",
    },
)

i'm not sure what your use case it, but it sounds like you might want to use an AutoScalingGroup with Spot instances, instead of just using a spot request. you can create a

LaunchTemplate

and then a

AutoScalingGroup

that references the template. your ASG can say it wants X number of instances and will do its best to keep that many spot instances up and running (depending on your spot price limit which you can control). then when you delete the ASG it will also remove the instances it has under its control

I do not have much experience with EC2 but I've learned that using AutoScaling group even for 1 instance is the best solution in most cases