Spot by Flexera
Spot by Flexera provides cloud infrastructure automation and optimization solutions. The platform includes Elastigroup for compute workload management across spot, reserved, and on-demand instances, Ocean for Kubernetes and container infrastructure automation, and Eco for cloud commitment management. The Spot API enables programmatic control over all platform capabilities including administration, compute groups, Kubernetes clusters, and cost optimization.
Spot by Flexera publishes 32 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Spot Access Policies API, Spot Accounts API, Spot Audit API, and 29 more. Tagged areas include Autoscaling, Cloud Infrastructure, Containers, Cost Optimization, and FinOps.
The Spot by Flexera catalog on APIs.io includes 6 JSON-LD contexts and 3 Spectral governance rulesets.
Spot by Flexera’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.
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APIs 32
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Spot Access Policies API
Create, update, and manage access control policies for users and groups.
Spot Accounts API
Create, update, list, and delete Spot accounts within an organization.
Spot Audit API
Retrieve audit logs for actions performed within the organization.
Spot Billing Accounts API
Manage registered billing accounts and their configurations.
Spot Billing Engine Setup API
Set up and configure Billing Engine for cloud accounts.
Spot Cloud Credentials API
Link and validate cloud provider credentials for AWS, Azure, and GCP accounts.
Spot Cost Analysis API
Retrieve cost analysis and spending data across cloud accounts.
Spot Cost Intelligence API
Access Cost Intelligence analytics for actionable cost insights and recommendations.
Spot Deployments API
Manage rolling deployments for Elastigroups.
Spot Eco AWS API
Manage Eco commitment optimization for AWS reserved instances and savings plans.
Spot Eco Azure API
Manage Eco commitment optimization for Azure reserved instances.
Spot Eco GCP API
Manage Eco commitment optimization for GCP committed use discounts.
Spot Elastigroup AWS API
Manage Elastigroup compute groups in AWS.
Spot Elastigroup Azure API
Manage Elastigroup compute groups in Azure.
Spot Elastigroup GCP API
Manage Elastigroup compute groups in GCP.
Spot EMR API
Manage Amazon EMR clusters with Elastigroup.
Spot Families API
Manage account families for grouping and cost allocation.
Spot Health Check API
Check the health status of the Spot API.
Spot Ocean AKS API
Manage Ocean clusters for Azure Kubernetes Service.
Spot Ocean AWS API
Manage Ocean clusters for AWS EKS.
Spot Ocean CD API
Manage continuous delivery for Ocean clusters.
Spot Ocean ECS API
Manage Ocean clusters for Amazon ECS.
Spot Ocean GKE API
Manage Ocean clusters for Google Kubernetes Engine.
Spot Ocean Spark API
Manage Apache Spark clusters on Ocean.
Spot Organizations API
Create and manage Spot organizations.
Spot Right Sizing API
Get right-sizing recommendations for Ocean workloads.
Spot Rolls API
Manage rolling updates for Ocean clusters.
Spot Savings Analysis API
Analyze potential and realized savings from cloud commitments.
Spot Stateful Instances API
Manage stateful instances within Elastigroups.
Spot Subscriptions API
Manage event notification subscriptions for Spot resources.
Spot Users API
Create, get, update, and delete users. Manage user permissions and account assignments.
Spot Virtual Node Groups API
Manage virtual node groups (launch specifications) within Ocean clusters.
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Open Collections 38
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Accounts API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Audit API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Billing Accounts API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Billing Engine Setup API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Cloud Credentials API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Cost Analysis API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Cost Intelligence API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Deployments API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Eco AWS API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Eco Azure API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Eco GCP API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Elastigroup AWS API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Elastigroup Azure API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Elastigroup GCP API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies EMR API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Families API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Health Check API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Ocean AKS API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Ocean AWS API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Ocean CD API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Ocean ECS API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Ocean GKE API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Ocean Spark API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Organizations API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Right Sizing API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Rolls API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Savings Analysis API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Stateful Instances API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Subscriptions API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Users API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration Access Policies Virtual Node Groups API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Administration API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Billing Engine API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Eco API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Elastigroup API
OPEN COLLECTIONSpot Ocean API
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Pricing Plans 2
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Spot Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 2
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Flexera Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSpot Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 2
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Flexera Finops
FINOPSSpot Finops
FINOPSFeatures 7
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Elastigroup Compute Management
Automated management of compute workloads across spot, reserved, and on-demand instances for optimal cost and availability.
Ocean Kubernetes Automation
Serverless container infrastructure that automatically right-sizes and scales Kubernetes node pools using the lowest-cost compute.
Eco Commitment Optimization
Automated purchase and management of reserved instances, savings plans, and committed use discounts across clouds.
Billing Engine
Multi-cloud billing management with cost allocation, chargeback, showback, and invoicing analytics.
Multi-Cloud Support
Unified management across AWS, Azure, and GCP with consistent APIs and optimization strategies.
Intelligent Autoscaling
Predictive and reactive autoscaling that analyzes workload patterns to optimize resource provisioning.
Stateful Workload Management
Support for stateful applications with persistent storage, ENI, and IP preservation during instance replacements.
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Semantic Vocabularies 6
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Spot Administration Context
JSON-LDSpot Billing Engine Context
JSON-LDSpot Context
JSON-LDSpot Eco Context
JSON-LDSpot Elastigroup Context
JSON-LDSpot Ocean Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 3
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Spot by Flexera API Rules
SPECTRALSpot by Flexera API Rules
SPECTRALSpot by Flexera API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 102
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Spot Access Policy
JSON SCHEMASpot Account
JSON SCHEMASpot Elastigroup
JSON SCHEMASpot Ocean Cluster
JSON SCHEMASpot Organization
JSON SCHEMAAccessPolicyRequest
JSON SCHEMAAccount
JSON SCHEMAAccountFamilyRequest
JSON SCHEMAAccountListResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccessPolicyRequest
JSON SCHEMAAccountListResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccountResponse
JSON SCHEMAAccount
JSON SCHEMAAWSCredentialsRequest
JSON SCHEMAAzureCredentialsRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateAccountRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateProgrammaticUserRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateUserRequest
JSON SCHEMAGCPCredentialsRequest
JSON SCHEMAOrganizationResponse
JSON SCHEMAOrganization
JSON SCHEMASubscriptionRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateAccountRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateUserPermissionsRequest
JSON SCHEMAUserListResponse
JSON SCHEMAUserResponse
JSON SCHEMAUser
JSON SCHEMAAWSCredentialsRequest
JSON SCHEMAAzureCredentialsRequest
JSON SCHEMAAccountFamilyRequest
JSON SCHEMABillingAccountListResponse
JSON SCHEMABillingAccount
JSON SCHEMABillingEngineSetupRequest
JSON SCHEMABillingEngineValidationRequest
JSON SCHEMACostIntelligenceSetupRequest
JSON SCHEMACostIntelligenceValidationRequest
JSON SCHEMABillingAccount
JSON SCHEMABillingAccountListResponse
JSON SCHEMABillingEngineSetupRequest
JSON SCHEMABillingEngineValidationRequest
JSON SCHEMACommitmentPlan
JSON SCHEMACommitmentPlanListResponse
JSON SCHEMACommitmentPlanResponse
JSON SCHEMACostIntelligenceSetupRequest
JSON SCHEMACostIntelligenceValidationRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateAccountRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateProgrammaticUserRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateUserRequest
JSON SCHEMACommitmentPlanListResponse
JSON SCHEMACommitmentPlanResponse
JSON SCHEMACommitmentPlan
JSON SCHEMAElastigroupAWSRequest
JSON SCHEMAElastigroupAzureRequest
JSON SCHEMAElastigroupGCPRequest
JSON SCHEMAElastigroupListResponse
JSON SCHEMAElastigroupResponse
JSON SCHEMAElastigroup
JSON SCHEMAEMRClusterRequest
JSON SCHEMARollRequest
JSON SCHEMAElastigroup
JSON SCHEMAElastigroupAWSRequest
JSON SCHEMAElastigroupAzureRequest
JSON SCHEMAElastigroupGCPRequest
JSON SCHEMAElastigroupListResponse
JSON SCHEMAElastigroupResponse
JSON SCHEMAEMRClusterRequest
JSON SCHEMAGCPCredentialsRequest
JSON SCHEMAOceanAKSClusterRequest
JSON SCHEMAOceanAWSClusterRequest
JSON SCHEMAOceanCDClusterRequest
JSON SCHEMAOceanClusterListResponse
JSON SCHEMAOceanClusterResponse
JSON SCHEMAOceanCluster
JSON SCHEMAOceanECSClusterRequest
JSON SCHEMAOceanGKEClusterRequest
JSON SCHEMAOceanRollRequest
JSON SCHEMAOceanSparkClusterRequest
JSON SCHEMAVirtualNodeGroupAWSRequest
JSON SCHEMAOceanAKSClusterRequest
JSON SCHEMAOceanAWSClusterRequest
JSON SCHEMAOceanCDClusterRequest
JSON SCHEMAOceanCluster
JSON SCHEMAOceanClusterListResponse
JSON SCHEMAOceanClusterResponse
JSON SCHEMAOceanECSClusterRequest
JSON SCHEMAOceanGKEClusterRequest
JSON SCHEMAOceanRollRequest
JSON SCHEMAOceanSparkClusterRequest
JSON SCHEMAOrganization
JSON SCHEMAOrganizationResponse
JSON SCHEMARollRequest
JSON SCHEMASubscriptionRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateAccountRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateUserPermissionsRequest
JSON SCHEMAUser
JSON SCHEMAUserListResponse
JSON SCHEMAUserResponse
JSON SCHEMAVirtualNodeGroupAWSRequest
JSON SCHEMASpot Subscription
JSON SCHEMASpot User
JSON SCHEMASpot Virtual Node Group
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JSON Structure 48
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Spot Administration Access Policy Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Administration Account List Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Administration Account Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Administration Account Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Administration Aws Credentials Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Administration Azure Credentials Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Administration Create Account Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Administration Create User Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Administration Gcp Credentials Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Administration Organization Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Administration Organization Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Administration Subscription Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Administration Update Account Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Administration User List Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Administration User Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Administration User Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Billing Engine Account Family Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Billing Engine Billing Account Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Eco Commitment Plan List Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Eco Commitment Plan Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Eco Commitment Plan Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Elastigroup Elastigroup Aws Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Elastigroup Elastigroup Azure Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Elastigroup Elastigroup Gcp Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Elastigroup Elastigroup List Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Elastigroup Elastigroup Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Elastigroup Elastigroup Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Elastigroup Emr Cluster Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Elastigroup Roll Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Ocean Ocean Aks Cluster Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Ocean Ocean Aws Cluster Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Ocean Ocean Cd Cluster Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Ocean Ocean Cluster List Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Ocean Ocean Cluster Response Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Ocean Ocean Cluster Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Ocean Ocean Ecs Cluster Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Ocean Ocean Gke Cluster Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Ocean Ocean Roll Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Ocean Ocean Spark Cluster Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Ocean Virtual Node Group Aws Request Structure
JSON STRUCTURESpot Structure
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Examples 101
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Spot Createaccount Example
EXAMPLESpot Createuser Example
EXAMPLESpot Getuser Example
EXAMPLESpot Initiaterollaws Example
EXAMPLESpot Listaccounts Example
EXAMPLESpot Stoprollaws Example
EXAMPLESpot Updateaccount Example
EXAMPLESpot Updaterollaws Example
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Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 6
What developers build with this provider.
Cloud Cost Optimization
Reduce cloud compute costs by up to 90% by leveraging spot instances with automated fallback to on-demand capacity.
Kubernetes Cost Management
Optimize Kubernetes infrastructure costs with bin-packing, right-sizing, and intelligent node pool management.
FinOps Reporting
Centralized cloud cost visibility with chargeback, showback, and commitment utilization reporting across teams.
Big Data Cost Reduction
Run Apache Spark and EMR workloads on spot instances with automatic scaling and cost optimization.
Reserved Instance Management
Automate the lifecycle of cloud commitments including purchasing, exchanging, and selling unused reservations.
Multi-Cloud Governance
Unified access control, audit logging, and policy management across AWS, Azure, and GCP accounts.
Integrations 7
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
AWS
Deep integration with EC2, EKS, ECS, EMR, Auto Scaling Groups, and Savings Plans for AWS workload optimization.
Azure
Integration with Azure VMs, AKS, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, and Azure Reserved VM Instances.
Google Cloud
Support for GCP Compute Engine, GKE, and Committed Use Discounts for Google Cloud optimization.
Kubernetes
Native integration with EKS, AKS, GKE, and self-managed Kubernetes clusters through the Ocean controller.
Terraform
Official Terraform provider for managing Elastigroup, Ocean, and Eco resources as infrastructure as code.
Jenkins
Jenkins plugin for scaling CI/CD build agents dynamically using Elastigroup spot instances.
Ansible
Ansible modules for automating Spot resource provisioning and configuration management.
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Resources
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API