 | Feedback |  |
The DescribeAvailabilityZones operation displays
availability zones that are currently available to the account and their states.
![[Note]](images/note.png) | Note |
|---|---|
Availability zones are not the same across accounts. The availability zone us-east-1a for account A is not necessarily the same as us-east-1a for account B. Zone assignments are mapped independently for each account. |
The following table describes the request parameters for DescribeAvailabilityZones.
Parameter names are case sensitive.
| Name | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
|
|
Name of an availability zone. Type: xsd:string[] | No |
The following table describes the default response tags included
in DescribeAvailabilityZones responses.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
|
| Availability zone information. Type: AvailabilityZoneItemType[] |
<DescribeAvailabilityZones xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2008-02-01"> <availabilityZoneSet/> <DescribeAvailabilityZones>
<DescribeAvailabilityZonesResponse
xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2008-02-01/">
<availabilityZoneInfo>
<item>
<zoneName>us-east-1a</zoneName>
<zoneState>available</zoneState>
</item>
<item>
<zoneName>us-east-1b</zoneName>
<zoneState>available</zoneState>
</item>
<item>
<zoneName>us-east-1c</zoneName>
<zoneState>available</zoneState>
</item>
</availabilityZoneInfo>
</DescribeAvailabilityZonesResponse>