modify-hosts¶

Description¶

Modify the auto-placement setting of a Dedicated Host. When auto-placement is enabled, any instances that you launch with a tenancy of host but without a specific host ID are placed onto any available Dedicated Host in your account that has auto-placement enabled. When auto-placement is disabled, you need to provide a host ID to have the instance launch onto a specific host. If no host ID is provided, the instance is launched onto a suitable host with auto-placement enabled.

You can also use this API action to modify a Dedicated Host to support either multiple instance types in an instance family, or to support a specific instance type only.

Synopsis¶

  modify-hosts
[--auto-placement <value>]
--host-ids <value>
[--host-recovery <value>]
[--instance-type <value>]
[--instance-family <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options¶

--auto-placement (string)

Specify whether to enable or disable auto-placement.

Possible values:

on

off

--host-ids (list)

The IDs of the Dedicated Hosts to modify.

(string)

Syntax:

"string" "string" ...

--host-recovery (string)

Indicates whether to enable or disable host recovery for the Dedicated Host. For more information, see Host recovery in the Amazon EC2 User Guide .

Possible values:

on

off

--instance-type (string)

Specifies the instance type to be supported by the Dedicated Host. Specify this parameter to modify a Dedicated Host to support only a specific instance type.

If you want to modify a Dedicated Host to support multiple instance types in its current instance family, omit this parameter and specify InstanceFamily instead. You cannot specify InstanceType and InstanceFamily in the same request.

--instance-family (string)

Specifies the instance family to be supported by the Dedicated Host. Specify this parameter to modify a Dedicated Host to support multiple instance types within its current instance family.

If you want to modify a Dedicated Host to support a specific instance type only, omit this parameter and specify InstanceType instead. You cannot specify InstanceFamily and InstanceType in the same request.

--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¶

Example 1: To enable auto-placement for a Dedicated Host

The following modify-hosts example enables auto-placement for a Dedicated Host so that it accepts any untargeted instance launches that match its instance type configuration.

aws ec2 modify-hosts \
    --host-id h-06c2f189b4EXAMPLE \
    --auto-placement on

Output:

{
    "Successful": [
        "h-06c2f189b4EXAMPLE"
    ],
    "Unsuccessful": []
}

Example 2: To enable host recovery for a Dedicated Host

The following modify-hosts example enables host recovery for the specified Dedicated Host.

aws ec2 modify-hosts \
    --host-id h-06c2f189b4EXAMPLE \
    --host-recovery on

Output:

{
    "Successful": [
        "h-06c2f189b4EXAMPLE"
    ],
    "Unsuccessful": []
}

For more information, see Modifying Dedicated Host Auto-Placement in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide for Linux Instances.

Output¶

Successful -> (list)

The IDs of the Dedicated Hosts that were successfully modified.

(string)

Unsuccessful -> (list)

The IDs of the Dedicated Hosts that could not be modified. Check whether the setting you requested can be used.

(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.

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