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title: Introducing WaveRadar

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## Introducing WaveRadar



### Introduction

There aren't really any great tools for understanding the historical Spot EC2 price for the 600+ instances available on AWS, especially not across regions and availability zones. To solve this, we have created **WaveRadar**, an interactive dashboard. WaveRadar can assist you in making informed decisions when selecting AWS EC2 instances and regions for product description = Linux/UNIX. Using WaveRadar, you can lookup EC2 spot price history and compare today's spot/on-demand prices for different instances across all regions and availability zones.


### How to access
To access WaveRadar, follow these simple steps:

1. [Sign up](https://www.mmcloud.io/customer/register) for an MMCloud account (completely free) and sign in. 
3. Navigate to [dashboard_link](https://www.mmcloud.io/wave-radar).





### Screenshots of WaveRadar
*region optimizer tab*
![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HysT_bWkT.png)

*visualize/download data tab*
![](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/rJQxY-ZyT.png)



### Example use cases 

1. Filter/sort the tabulator in the region optimizer tab to find the right instance and region:
    * Finding the cheapest region for t3.medium spot instance (3x difference)
        ```
        Sep 12
        lowest recent spot price ($0.0125) at us-east-2b 
        highest recent spot price ($0.0404) at il-central-1a
        ```
 
    * Finding the cheapest region for t3.medium on-demand instance (1.5x difference)
        ```
        Sep 12
        lowest on-demand price ($0.0416) at us-east-2b 
        highest on-demand price ($0.0672) at sa-east-1c
        ```
        
    * Find a cheap instance with 4 cpu and 16 gib memory in us-west-1
        ```
        Sep 14
        lowest recent spot price for t4g.xlarge in us-west-1c: $0.0480
        highest recent spot price for t2.xlarge in us-west-1c: $0.0662
        ```
            
2. Visualize and download spot price history in the visualize/download data tab:
    * Access historical spot price data from April to the current date for informed decision-making.
