We launched Spot Insights in January this year as a free tool to help developers and cloud practitioners make informed decisions about spot instances — with real-time pricing, interruption rates, and historical trends across availability zones.
Today, we're excited to take it one step further — with the launch of the Spot Insights Chrome Extension.
This extension brings the full power of Spot Insights into a more seamless, lightweight experience. There is no need to open a separate tab or manually navigate to a website — just one click from your browser.
Let’s take a quick step back.
Why Spot Instances?
Spot Instances offer one of the most effective ways to reduce cloud infrastructure costs — often by up to 90% compared to on-demand pricing. By using excess capacity in the cloud provider's pool (such as AWS), spot instances allow you to run workloads at a fraction of the usual cost.
But it comes with a catch: Spot Instances can be interrupted at any time with little notice — sometimes as short as 2 minutes — making it risky for long-running or stateful workloads.
Making Spot Usage Safer with Spot Insights
That's where Spot Insights comes in.
Spot Insights is designed to help you use spot instances strategically — giving you real-time access to:
- ✅ Real-time spot prices across availability zones and instance types
- ⚠️ Interruption rates so you can assess reliability
- 📈 Historical price trends (up to 3 months) to understand volatility
By combining real-time data with historical context, Spot Insights empowers users to make smarter, safer decisions — avoiding zones or instance types with high interruption risks, and prioritizing those with better price stability.
And now, it's even easier to access.
The Spot Insights Chrome Extension
With the new Chrome extension, you no longer need to open a new tab or type in the URL.
Just one click on the extension icon, and you can instantly:
- View spot instance prices and risk levels
- Browse historical pricing trends
- Get the detailed information on the instance you query
It's everything you love about Spot Insights — now more convenient than ever.
Whether you're an SRE scanning for safer spot capacity or a developer trying to choose the best instance type for testing, the extension helps you move faster without compromising reliability.
Built by CloudPilot AI — Making Spot Stable
The Spot Insights is built by CloudPilot AI, an intelligent platform to optimize cloud cost.
We understand that while spot instances are cost-effective, stability matters. That's why our platform doesn't stop at visibility. We help users:
- Predict interruptions up to 45 minutes in advance
- Auto-select the best spot candidates based on availability and price trends
- Fallback to on-demand gracefully when needed
Spot Insights is our way of giving back to the community — providing a free resource to help everyone adopt spot more confidently.
Try It Now and Share Your Feedback
The Spot Insights Chrome Extension is now available on the Chrome Web Store.
We’d love for you to give it a try and let us know what you think! Your feedback will help us improve and add more features that make spot adoption even smoother.
🔗 Install Spot Insights Chrome Extension
🗣️ Share your thoughts or request features via Discord server.
Thanks for supporting Spot Insights and CloudPilot AI. Let’s make cloud infrastructure smarter — and cheaper — together.
