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Spot Create Elastigroup Example

Example request and response for creating a new Elastigroup on AWS with Spot instance optimization

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Spot Create Elastigroup Example is an example object payload from Spot by NetApp, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

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Example Payload

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{
  "name": "Create Elastigroup AWS",
  "description": "Example request and response for creating a new Elastigroup on AWS with Spot instance optimization",
  "request": {
    "method": "POST",
    "url": "https://api.spotinst.io/aws/ec2/group",
    "headers": {
      "Authorization": "Bearer your_spot_api_token_here",
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": {
      "group": {
        "name": "web-servers-prod",
        "description": "Production web server Elastigroup",
        "region": "us-east-1",
        "capacity": {
          "minimum": 2,
          "maximum": 20,
          "target": 5
        },
        "strategy": {
          "risk": 80,
          "availabilityVsCost": "balanced",
          "fallbackToOnDemand": true,
          "utilizeReservedInstances": true
        },
        "compute": {
          "instanceTypes": {
            "ondemand": "m5.large",
            "spot": ["m5.large", "m4.large", "m5a.large", "m5d.large", "r5.large"]
          },
          "launchSpecification": {
            "imageId": "ami-0abcdef1234567890",
            "keyPair": "my-key-pair",
            "securityGroupIds": ["sg-0123456789abcdef0"],
            "userData": "IyEvYmluL2Jhc2gKZWNobyAiSGVsbG8gV29ybGQi"
          },
          "availabilityZones": [
            {"name": "us-east-1a", "subnetId": "subnet-0123456789abcdef0"},
            {"name": "us-east-1b", "subnetId": "subnet-0abcdef1234567890"},
            {"name": "us-east-1c", "subnetId": "subnet-0fedcba9876543210"}
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": {
      "request": {
        "id": "b4e33d3b-4a5b-4c8c-a2f3-9b6e2e2e4c5a",
        "url": "/aws/ec2/group",
        "method": "POST",
        "timestamp": "2026-05-02T10:00:00Z",
        "isFinished": true
      },
      "response": {
        "status": {
          "code": 200,
          "message": "OK"
        },
        "items": [
          {
            "id": "sig-12345abc",
            "name": "web-servers-prod",
            "description": "Production web server Elastigroup",
            "region": "us-east-1",
            "capacity": {
              "minimum": 2,
              "maximum": 20,
              "target": 5
            },
            "createdAt": "2026-05-02T10:00:00Z",
            "updatedAt": "2026-05-02T10:00:00Z"
          }
        ],
        "count": 1,
        "kind": "spotinst:aws:ec2:group"
      }
    }
  }
}