describe-instance-type-offerings¶

Description¶

Returns a list of all instance types offered. The results can be filtered by location (Region or Availability Zone). If no location is specified, the instance types offered in the current Region are returned.

Synopsis¶

  describe-instance-type-offerings
[--dry-run | --no-dry-run]
[--location-type <value>]
[--filters <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--starting-token <value>]
[--page-size <value>]
[--max-items <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
[--debug]
[--endpoint-url <value>]
[--no-verify-ssl]
[--no-paginate]
[--output <value>]
[--query <value>]
[--profile <value>]
[--region <value>]
[--version <value>]
[--color <value>]
[--no-sign-request]
[--ca-bundle <value>]
[--cli-read-timeout <value>]
[--cli-connect-timeout <value>]
[--cli-binary-format <value>]
[--no-cli-pager]
[--cli-auto-prompt]
[--no-cli-auto-prompt]

Options¶

--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 .

--location-type (string)

The location type.

Possible values:

region

availability-zone

availability-zone-id

--filters (list)

One or more filters. Filter names and values are case-sensitive.

location - This depends on the location type. For example, if the location type is region (default), the location is the Region code (for example, us-east-2 .)

instance-type - The instance type. For example, c5.2xlarge .

(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.

If you specify multiple filters, the filters are joined with an AND , and the request returns only results that match all of the specified filters.

Name -> (string)

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

Values -> (list)

The filter values. Filter values are case-sensitive. If you specify multiple values for a filter, the values are joined with an OR , and the request returns all results that match any of the specified values.

(string)

Shorthand Syntax:

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

JSON Syntax:

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

--starting-token (string)

A token to specify where to start paginating. This is the NextToken from a previously truncated response.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--page-size (integer)

The size of each page to get in the AWS service call. This does not affect the number of items returned in the command’s output. Setting a smaller page size results in more calls to the AWS service, retrieving fewer items in each call. This can help prevent the AWS service calls from timing out.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--max-items (integer)

The total number of items to return in the command’s output. If the total number of items available is more than the value specified, a NextToken is provided in the command’s output. To resume pagination, provide the NextToken value in the starting-token argument of a subsequent command. Do not use the NextToken response element directly outside of the AWS CLI.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--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. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.

Global Options¶

--debug (boolean)

Turn on debug logging.

--endpoint-url (string)

Override command’s default URL with the given URL.

--no-verify-ssl (boolean)

By default, the AWS CLI uses SSL when communicating with AWS services. For each SSL connection, the AWS CLI will verify SSL certificates. This option overrides the default behavior of verifying SSL certificates.

--no-paginate (boolean)

Disable automatic pagination.

--output (string)

The formatting style for command output.

json
text
table
yaml
yaml-stream

--query (string)

A JMESPath query to use in filtering the response data.

--profile (string)

Use a specific profile from your credential file.

--region (string)

The region to use. Overrides config/env settings.

--version (string)

Display the version of this tool.

--color (string)

Turn on/off color output.

on
off
auto

--no-sign-request (boolean)

Do not sign requests. Credentials will not be loaded if this argument is provided.

--ca-bundle (string)

The CA certificate bundle to use when verifying SSL certificates. Overrides config/env settings.

--cli-read-timeout (int)

The maximum socket read time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket read will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-connect-timeout (int)

The maximum socket connect time in seconds. If the value is set to 0, the socket connect will be blocking and not timeout. The default value is 60 seconds.

--cli-binary-format (string)

The formatting style to be used for binary blobs. The default format is base64. The base64 format expects binary blobs to be provided as a base64 encoded string. The raw-in-base64-out format preserves compatibility with AWS CLI V1 behavior and binary values must be passed literally. When providing contents from a file that map to a binary blob fileb:// will always be treated as binary and use the file contents directly regardless of the cli-binary-format setting. When using file:// the file contents will need to properly formatted for the configured cli-binary-format.

base64
raw-in-base64-out

--no-cli-pager (boolean)

Disable cli pager for output.

--cli-auto-prompt (boolean)

Automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

--no-cli-auto-prompt (boolean)

Disable automatically prompt for CLI input parameters.

Examples¶

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

Example 1: To list the instance types offered in a Region

The following describe-instance-type-offerings example lists the instance types offered in the Region configured as the default Region for the AWS CLI.

aws ec2 describe-instance-type-offerings

To list the instance types offered in a different Region, specify the Region using the --region parameter.

aws ec2 describe-instance-type-offerings \
    --region us-east-2

Output:

{
  "InstanceTypeOfferings": [
      {
          "InstanceType": "m5.2xlarge",
          "LocationType": "region",
          "Location": "us-east-2"
      },
      {
          "InstanceType": "t3.micro",
          "LocationType": "region",
          "Location": "us-east-2"
      },
      ...
  ]
}

Example 2: To list the instance types offered in an Availability Zone

The following describe-instance-type-offerings example lists the instance types offered in the specified Availability Zone. The Availability Zone must be in the specified Region.

aws ec2 describe-instance-type-offerings \
    --location-type availability-zone \
    --filters Name=location,Values=us-east-2a \
    --region us-east-2

Example 3: To check whether an instance type is supported

The following describe-instance-type-offerings command indicates whether the c5.xlarge instance type is supported in the specified Region.

aws ec2 describe-instance-type-offerings \
    --filters Name=instance-type,Values=c5.xlarge \
    --region us-east-2

The following describe-instance-type-offerings example lists all C5 instance types that are supported in the specified Region.

aws ec2 describe-instance-type-offerings \
    --filters Name=instance-type,Values=c5* \
    --query "InstanceTypeOfferings[].InstanceType" \
    --region us-east-2

Output:

[
    "c5d.12xlarge",
    "c5d.9xlarge",
    "c5n.xlarge",
    "c5.xlarge",
    "c5d.metal",
    "c5n.metal",
    "c5.large",
    "c5d.2xlarge",
    "c5n.4xlarge",
    "c5.2xlarge",
    "c5n.large",
    "c5n.9xlarge",
    "c5d.large",
    "c5.18xlarge",
    "c5d.18xlarge",
    "c5.12xlarge",
    "c5n.18xlarge",
    "c5.metal",
    "c5d.4xlarge",
    "c5.24xlarge",
    "c5d.xlarge",
    "c5n.2xlarge",
    "c5d.24xlarge",
    "c5.9xlarge",
    "c5.4xlarge"
]

Output¶

InstanceTypeOfferings -> (list)

The instance types offered.

(structure)

The instance types offered.

InstanceType -> (string)

The instance type. For more information, see Instance types in the Amazon EC2 User Guide .

LocationType -> (string)

The location type.

Location -> (string)

The identifier for the location. This depends on the location type. For example, if the location type is region , the location is the Region code (for example, us-east-2 .)

NextToken -> (string)

The token to use to retrieve the next page of results. This value is null when there are no more results to return.

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