ec2-confirm-product-instance

Description

Verifies whether an Amazon DevPay product code is associated with an instance. This can only be executed by the owner of the product code and is useful when a product code owner wants to verify whether an EC2 user’s instance is eligible for support.

The short version of this command is ec2cpi.

Syntax

ec2-confirm-product-instance product_code -i instance_id

Options

Name Description Required

Name	Description	Required
`product_code`	The product code to confirm. This must be an Amazon DevPay product code that you own. Type: String Default: None Example: 774F4FF8	Yes
`-i` `instance_id`	The instance to confirm. Type: String Default: None Example: -i i-10a64379	Yes

product_code

The product code to confirm. This must be an Amazon DevPay product code that you own.

Type: String

Default: None

Example: 774F4FF8

Yes

-i

instance_id

The instance to confirm.

Type: String

Default: None

Example: -i i-10a64379

Yes

Common Options

Option	Description
`--region` `REGION`	Overrides the Region specified in the `EC2_URL` environment variable and the URL specified by the `-U` option. Default: The `EC2_URL` environment variable, or `us-east-1` if the environment variable is not set. Example: `--region eu-west-1`
`-U, --url` `URL`	`URL` is the uniform resource locator of the Amazon EC2 web service entry point. Default: The `EC2_URL` environment variable, or https://ec2.amazonaws.com if the environment variable is not set. Example: `-U https://ec2.amazonaws.com`
`-K, --private-key` `EC2-PRIVATE-KEY`	The private key to use when constructing requests to Amazon EC2. Default: The value of the `EC2_PRIVATE_KEY` environment variable. Example: `-K pk-HKZYKTAIG2ECMXYIBH3HXV4ZBZQ55CLO.pem`
`-C, --cert` `EC2-CERT`	The X.509 certificate to use when constructing requests to Amazon EC2. Default: The value of the `EC2_CERT` environment variable. Example: `-C cert-HKZYKTAIG2ECMXYIBH3HXV4ZBZQ55CLO.pem`
`--connection-timeout` `TIMEOUT`	Specifies a connection timeout (in seconds). Example: --connection-timeout 30
`--request-timeout` `TIMEOUT`	Specifies a request timeout (in seconds). Example: --request-timeout 45
`-v, --verbose`	Displays verbose output by showing the SOAP request and response on the command line. This is particularly useful if you are building tools to talk directly to our SOAP API.
`-H, --headers`	Displays column headers in the output.
`--show-empty-fields`	Shows empty columns as `(nil)`.
`--hide-tags`	Do not display tags for tagged resources.
`--debug`	Prints internal debugging information. This is useful to assist us when troubleshooting problems.
`-?, --help, -h`	Displays Help.
`-`	If `-` is specified as an argument to one of the parameters, a list of arguments is read from standard input. This is useful for piping the output of one command into the input of another. Example: `ec2-describe-instances \| grep stopped \| cut -f 2 \| ec2-start-instances -`

Output

The command returns a table that contains the following information:

Product code
Instance ID
Boolean value indicating if the product code is attached to the instance
The instance owner's account ID (if the product code is attached)

Amazon EC2 command line tools display errors on stderr.

Examples

Example Request

This example describes the confirms the product code is associated with the instance.

PROMPT> ec2-confirm-product-instance 774F4FF8 -i i-10a64379
774F4FF8   i-10a64379   true  999988887777