[ aws . ec2 ]

release-hosts

Description

When you no longer want to use an On-Demand Dedicated Host it can be released. On-Demand billing is stopped and the host goes into released state. The host ID of Dedicated Hosts that have been released can no longer be specified in another request, for example, to modify the host. You must stop or terminate all instances on a host before it can be released.

When Dedicated Hosts are released, it may take some time for them to stop counting toward your limit and you may receive capacity errors when trying to allocate new Dedicated Hosts. Wait a few minutes and then try again.

Released hosts still appear in a DescribeHosts response.

See also: AWS API Documentation

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Synopsis

  release-hosts
--host-ids <value>
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options

--host-ids (list)

The IDs of the Dedicated Hosts to release.

(string)

Syntax:

"string" "string" ...

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples

To release a Dedicated host from your account

To release a Dedicated host from your account. Instances that are on the host must be stopped or terminated before the host can be released.

Command:

aws ec2 release-hosts --host-id=h-0029d6e3cacf1b3da

Output:

{
    "Successful":  [
        "h-0029d6e3cacf1b3da"
         ],
  "Unsuccessful": []

 }

Output

Successful -> (list)

The IDs of the Dedicated Hosts that were successfully released.

(string)

Unsuccessful -> (list)

The IDs of the Dedicated Hosts that could not be released, including an error message.

(structure)

Information about items that were not successfully processed in a batch call.

Error -> (structure)

Information about the error.

Code -> (string)

The error code.

Message -> (string)

The error message accompanying the error code.

ResourceId -> (string)

The ID of the resource.