describe-reserved-instances¶

Description¶

Describes one or more of the Reserved Instances that you purchased.

For more information about Reserved Instances, see Reserved Instances in the Amazon EC2 User Guide .

Synopsis¶

  describe-reserved-instances
[--filters <value>]
[--offering-class <value>]
[--reserved-instances-ids <value>]
[--dry-run | --no-dry-run]
[--offering-type <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options¶

--filters (list)

One or more filters.

availability-zone - The Availability Zone where the Reserved Instance can be used.

duration - The duration of the Reserved Instance (one year or three years), in seconds (31536000 | 94608000 ).

end - The time when the Reserved Instance expires (for example, 2015-08-07T11:54:42.000Z).

fixed-price - The purchase price of the Reserved Instance (for example, 9800.0).

instance-type - The instance type that is covered by the reservation.

scope - The scope of the Reserved Instance (Region or Availability Zone ).

product-description - The Reserved Instance product platform description. Instances that include (Amazon VPC) in the product platform description will only be displayed to EC2-Classic account holders and are for use with Amazon VPC (Linux/UNIX | Linux/UNIX (Amazon VPC) | SUSE Linux | SUSE Linux (Amazon VPC) | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Amazon VPC) | Windows | Windows (Amazon VPC) | Windows with SQL Server Standard | Windows with SQL Server Standard (Amazon VPC) | Windows with SQL Server Web | Windows with SQL Server Web (Amazon VPC) | Windows with SQL Server Enterprise | Windows with SQL Server Enterprise (Amazon VPC) ).

reserved-instances-id - The ID of the Reserved Instance.

start - The time at which the Reserved Instance purchase request was placed (for example, 2014-08-07T11:54:42.000Z).

state - The state of the Reserved Instance (payment-pending | active | payment-failed | retired ).

tag :<key> - The key/value combination of a tag assigned to the resource. Use the tag key in the filter name and the tag value as the filter value. For example, to find all resources that have a tag with the key Owner and the value TeamA , specify tag:Owner for the filter name and TeamA for the filter value.

tag-key - The key of a tag assigned to the resource. Use this filter to find all resources assigned a tag with a specific key, regardless of the tag value.

usage-price - The usage price of the Reserved Instance, per hour (for example, 0.84).

(structure)

A filter name and value pair that is used to return a more specific list of results from a describe operation. Filters can be used to match a set of resources by specific criteria, such as tags, attributes, or IDs.

Name -> (string)

The name of the filter. Filter names are case-sensitive.

Values -> (list)

The filter values. Filter values are case-sensitive.

(string)

Shorthand Syntax:

Name=string,Values=string,string ...

JSON Syntax:

[
  {
    "Name": "string",
    "Values": ["string", ...]
  }
  ...
]

--offering-class (string)

Describes whether the Reserved Instance is Standard or Convertible.

Possible values:

standard

convertible

--reserved-instances-ids (list)

One or more Reserved Instance IDs.

Default: Describes all your Reserved Instances, or only those otherwise specified.

(string)

Syntax:

"string" "string" ...

--dry-run | --no-dry-run (boolean)

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation . Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation .

--offering-type (string)

The Reserved Instance offering type. If you are using tools that predate the 2011-11-01 API version, you only have access to the Medium Utilization Reserved Instance offering type.

Possible values:

Heavy Utilization

Medium Utilization

Light Utilization

No Upfront

Partial Upfront

All Upfront

--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 describe your Reserved Instances

This example command describes the Reserved Instances that you own.

Command:

aws ec2 describe-reserved-instances

Output:

{
  "ReservedInstances": [
      {
          "ReservedInstancesId": "b847fa93-e282-4f55-b59a-1342fexample",
          "OfferingType": "No Upfront",
          "AvailabilityZone": "us-west-1c",
          "End": "2016-08-14T21:34:34.000Z",
          "ProductDescription": "Linux/UNIX",
          "UsagePrice": 0.00,
          "RecurringCharges": [
              {
                  "Amount": 0.104,
                  "Frequency": "Hourly"
              }
          ],
          "Start": "2015-08-15T21:34:35.086Z",
          "State": "active",
          "FixedPrice": 0.0,
          "CurrencyCode": "USD",
          "Duration": 31536000,
          "InstanceTenancy": "default",
          "InstanceType": "m3.medium",
          "InstanceCount": 2
      },
      ...
  ]
}

To describe your Reserved Instances using filters

This example filters the response to include only three-year, t2.micro Linux/UNIX Reserved Instances in us-west-1c.

Command:

aws ec2 describe-reserved-instances --filters Name=duration,Values=94608000 Name=instance-type,Values=t2.micro Name=product-description,Values=Linux/UNIX Name=availability-zone,Values=us-east-1e

Output:

{
    "ReservedInstances": [
        {
            "ReservedInstancesId": "f127bd27-edb7-44c9-a0eb-0d7e09259af0",
            "OfferingType": "All Upfront",
            "AvailabilityZone": "us-east-1e",
            "End": "2018-03-26T21:34:34.000Z",
            "ProductDescription": "Linux/UNIX",
            "UsagePrice": 0.00,
            "RecurringCharges": [],
            "Start": "2015-03-27T21:34:35.848Z",
            "State": "active",
            "FixedPrice": 151.0,
            "CurrencyCode": "USD",
            "Duration": 94608000,
            "InstanceTenancy": "default",
            "InstanceType": "t2.micro",
            "InstanceCount": 1
        }
    ]
}

For more information, see Using Amazon EC2 Instances in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide.

Output¶

ReservedInstances -> (list)

A list of Reserved Instances.

(structure)

Describes a Reserved Instance.

AvailabilityZone -> (string)

The Availability Zone in which the Reserved Instance can be used.

Duration -> (long)

The duration of the Reserved Instance, in seconds.

End -> (timestamp)

The time when the Reserved Instance expires.

FixedPrice -> (float)

The purchase price of the Reserved Instance.

InstanceCount -> (integer)

The number of reservations purchased.

InstanceType -> (string)

The instance type on which the Reserved Instance can be used.

ProductDescription -> (string)

The Reserved Instance product platform description.

ReservedInstancesId -> (string)

The ID of the Reserved Instance.

Start -> (timestamp)

The date and time the Reserved Instance started.

State -> (string)

The state of the Reserved Instance purchase.

UsagePrice -> (float)

The usage price of the Reserved Instance, per hour.

CurrencyCode -> (string)

The currency of the Reserved Instance. It’s specified using ISO 4217 standard currency codes. At this time, the only supported currency is USD .

InstanceTenancy -> (string)

The tenancy of the instance.

OfferingClass -> (string)

The offering class of the Reserved Instance.

OfferingType -> (string)

The Reserved Instance offering type.

RecurringCharges -> (list)

The recurring charge tag assigned to the resource.

(structure)

Describes a recurring charge.

Amount -> (double)

The amount of the recurring charge.

Frequency -> (string)

The frequency of the recurring charge.

Scope -> (string)

The scope of the Reserved Instance.

Tags -> (list)

Any tags assigned to the resource.

(structure)

Describes a tag.

Key -> (string)

The key of the tag.

Constraints: Tag keys are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 127 Unicode characters. May not begin with aws: .

Value -> (string)

The value of the tag.

Constraints: Tag values are case-sensitive and accept a maximum of 255 Unicode characters.

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