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Describes availability zones that are currently available to the account and their states.
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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. |
Amazon EC2 returns a table that contains the following information:
Output type identifier ("AVAILABILITYZONE")
Availability zone name
State
Amazon EC2 displays errors on stderr.
This example displays the availability zones that are available to the account.
$ec2-describe-availability-zonesAVAILABILITYZONE us-east-1a available AVAILABILITYZONE us-east-1b available AVAILABILITYZONE us-east-1c available
